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[CITE: 42USC300ff-21]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 6A--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
 
            SUBCHAPTER XXIV--HIV HEALTH CARE SERVICES PROGRAM
 
                       Part B--Care Grant Program
 
                   subpart i--general grant provisions
 
Sec. 300ff-21. Grants


(a) In general

    The Secretary shall, subject to the availability of appropriations, 
make grants to States to enable such States to improve the quality, 
availability and organization of health care and support services for 
individuals and families with HIV disease. The authority of the 
Secretary to provide grants under this part is subject to section 300ff-
34(e)(2) of this title (relating to the decrease in perinatal 
transmission of HIV disease).

(b) Priority for women, infants, and children

    For the purpose of providing health and support services to infants, 
children, and women with HIV disease, including treatment measures to 
prevent the perinatal transmission of HIV, a State shall use, of the 
funds allocated under this part to the State for a fiscal year, not less 
than the percentage constituted by the ratio of the population in the 
State of infants, children, and women with acquired immune deficiency 
syndrome to the general population in the State of individuals with such 
syndrome.

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XXVI, Sec. 2611, as added Pub. L. 101-381, 
title II, Sec. 201, Aug. 18, 1990, 104 Stat. 586; amended Pub. L. 104-
146, Secs. 3(c)(1), 7(b)(2), May 20, 1996, 110 Stat. 1353, 1368.)


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 2611 of act July 1, 1944, was successively 
renumbered by subsequent acts and transferred, see section 238j of this 
title.


                               Amendments

    1996--Pub. L. 104-146, Sec. 3(c)(1), designated existing provisions 
as subsec. (a), inserted heading, and added subsec. (b).
    Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 104-146, Sec. 7(b)(2), inserted at end ``The 
authority of the Secretary to provide grants under this part is subject 
to section 300ff-34(e)(2) of this title (relating to the decrease in 
perinatal transmission of HIV disease).''


                    Effective Date of 1996 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 104-146 effective Oct. 1, 1996, see section 13 
of Pub. L. 104-146, set out as a note under section 300ff-11 of this 
title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 300ff-27 of this title.
