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[CITE: 42USC300cc-20]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 6A--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
 
  SUBCHAPTER XXI--RESEARCH WITH RESPECT TO ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY 
                                SYNDROME
 
                       Part B--Research Authority
 
Sec. 300cc-20. Additional authority with respect to research


(a) Data collection with respect to national prevalence

    (1) The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention, may, through representative sampling and 
other appropriate methodologies, provide for the continuous collection 
of data on the incidence in the United States of cases of acquired 
immune deficiency syndrome and of cases of infection with the etiologic 
agent for such syndrome. The Secretary may carry out the program of data 
collection directly or through cooperative agreements and contracts with 
public and nonprofit private entities.
    (2) The Secretary shall encourage each State to enter into a 
cooperative agreement or contract under paragraph (1) with the Secretary 
in order to facilitate the prompt collection of the most recent accurate 
data on the incidence of cases described in such paragraph.
    (3) The Secretary shall ensure that data collected under paragraph 
(1) includes data on the demographic characteristics of the population 
of individuals with cases described in paragraph (1), including data on 
specific subpopulations at risk of infection with the etiologic agent 
for acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
    (4) In carrying out this subsection, the Secretary shall, for the 
purpose of assuring the utility of data collected under this section, 
request entities with expertise in the methodologies of data collection 
to provide, as soon as is practicable, assistance to the Secretary and 
to the States with respect to the development and utilization of uniform 
methodologies of data collection.
    (5) The Secretary shall provide for the dissemination of data 
collected pursuant to this subsection. In carrying out this paragraph, 
the Secretary may publish such data as frequently as the Secretary 
determines to be appropriate with respect to the protection of the 
public health. The Secretary shall publish such data not less than once 
each year.

(b) Epidemiological and demographic data

    (1) The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention, shall develop an epidemiological data 
base and shall provide for long-term studies for the purposes of--
        (A) collecting information on the demographic characteristics of 
    the population of individuals infected with the etiologic agent for 
    acquired immune deficiency syndrome and the natural history of such 
    infection; and
        (B) developing models demonstrating the long-term domestic and 
    international patterns of the transmission of such etiologic agent.

    (2) The Secretary may carry out paragraph (1) directly or through 
grants to, or cooperative agreeements \1\ or contracts with, public and 
nonprofit private entities, including Federal agencies.
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(c) Long-term research

    The Secretary may make grants to public and nonprofit private 
entities for the purpose of assisting grantees in conducting long-term 
research into treatments for acquired immune deficiency syndrome 
developed from knowledge of the genetic nature of the etiologic agent 
for such syndrome.

(d) Social sciences research

    The Secretary, acting through the Director of the National Institute 
of Mental Health, may make grants to public and nonprofit private 
entities for the purpose of assisting grantees in conducting scientific 
research into the psychological and social sciences as such sciences 
relate to acquired immune deficiency syndrome.

(e) Authorization of appropriations

    (1) For the purpose of carrying out this section, there are 
authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for each 
fiscal year.
    (2) Amounts appropriated pursuant to paragraph (1) to carry out 
subsection (c) of this section shall remain available until expended.

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XXIII, Sec. 2320, as added Pub. L. 100-
607, title II, Sec. 201(4), Nov. 4, 1988, 102 Stat. 3074; amended Pub. 
L. 100-690, title II, Sec. 2617(d), Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4240; Pub. 
L. 102-531, title III, Sec. 312(d)(20), Oct. 27, 1992, 106 Stat. 3505; 
Pub. L. 103-43, title XVIII, Sec. 1811(5), (6), June 10, 1993, 107 Stat. 
200.)


                               Amendments

    1993--Subsec. (b)(1)(A). Pub. L. 103-43, Sec. 1811(5), inserted 
``and the natural history of such infection'' after ``syndrome''.
    Subsec. (e)(1). Pub. L. 103-43, Sec. 1811(6), substituted ``fiscal 
year'' for ``of the fiscal years 1989 through 1991''.
    1992--Subsecs. (a)(1), (b)(1). Pub. L. 102-531 substituted ``Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention'' for ``Centers for Disease 
Control''.
    1988--Subsec. (a)(5). Pub. L. 100-690 substituted ``subsection'' for 
``section''.


                    Effective Date of 1988 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 100-690 effective immediately after enactment 
of Pub. L. 100-607, which was approved Nov. 4, 1988, see section 2600 of 
Pub. L. 100-690, set out as a note under section 242m of this title.
