Title 42 — The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-73

§247b–9 Diabetes in children and youth

Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 6A— - PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER II— - GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES › Part Part B— - Federal-State Cooperation › § 247b–9

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the CDC director, must create a monitoring system to gather data on diabetes in children and teens and build a national database to hold that information. The tracking must show how many new cases occur and how many young people have diabetes. The Secretary must also run a national effort to fight type 2 diabetes in youth. That effort must improve tracking and research to measure how common type 2 is and how often it is mistaken for type 1, and must develop better lab tests and ways to monitor blood sugar, including noninvasive monitors and improved glucometers. Funds as needed are authorized for each of fiscal years 2001 through 2005.

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Title 42, §247b–9

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(a)The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shall develop a sentinel system to collect data on juvenile diabetes, including with respect to incidence and prevalence, and shall establish a national database for such data.

(b)The Secretary shall implement a national public health effort to address type 2 diabetes in youth, including—

(1)enhancing surveillance systems and expanding research to better assess the prevalence and incidence of type 2 diabetes in youth and determine the extent to which type 2 diabetes is incorrectly diagnosed as type 1 diabetes among children; and

(2)developing and improving laboratory methods to assist in diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of diabetes including, but not limited to, developing noninvasive ways to monitor blood glucose to prevent hypoglycemia and improving existing glucometers that measure blood glucose.

(c)For the purpose of carrying out this section, there are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 2001 through 2005.

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 247b–9

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73