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[CITE: 42USC300cc-40]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 6A--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
 
  SUBCHAPTER XXI--RESEARCH WITH RESPECT TO ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY 
                                SYNDROME
 
                     Part D--Office of AIDS Research
 
            subpart i--interagency coordination of activities
 
Sec. 300cc-40. Establishment of Office


(a) In general

    There is established within the National Institutes of Health an 
office to be known as the Office of AIDS Research. The Office shall be 
headed by a director, who shall be appointed by the Secretary.

(b) Duties

           (1) Interagency coordination of AIDS activities

        With respect to acquired immune deficiency syndrome, the 
    Director of the Office shall plan, coordinate, and evaluate research 
    and other activities conducted or supported by the agencies of the 
    National Institutes of Health. In carrying out the preceding 
    sentence, the Director of the Office shall evaluate the AIDS 
    activities of each of such agencies and shall provide for the 
    periodic reevaluation of such activities.

                          (2) Consultations

        The Director of the Office shall carry out this subpart 
    (including developing and revising the plan required in section 
    300cc-40b of this title) in consultation with the heads of the 
    agencies of the National Institutes of Health, with the advisory 
    councils of the agencies, and with the advisory council established 
    under section 300cc-40a of this title.

                          (3) Coordination

        The Director of the Office shall act as the primary Federal 
    official with responsibility for overseeing all AIDS research 
    conducted or supported by the National Institutes of Health, and
            (A) shall serve to represent the National Institutes of 
        Health AIDS Research Program at all relevant Executive branch 
        task forces and committees; and
            (B) shall maintain communications with all relevant Public 
        Health Service agencies and with various other departments of 
        the Federal Government, to ensure the timely transmission of 
        information concerning advances in AIDS research and the 
        clinical treatment of acquired immune deficiency syndrome and 
        its related conditions, between these various agencies for 
        dissemination to affected communities and health care providers.

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XXIII, Sec. 2351, as added Pub. L. 103-43, 
title XVIII, Sec. 1801(a)(3), June 10, 1993, 107 Stat. 192.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 300cc-40b of this title.
