§300cc–20 — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary, through the CDC Director, may set up a continuous system to count and track AIDS cases and infections with the agent that causes AIDS. The CDC can do this itself or work with public or nonprofit groups. The Secretary must encourage each State to join so recent, accurate counts are collected quickly. The data must show who is affected, including groups at higher risk. Experts must be asked to help make measurement methods the same across places. The CDC must share the data as often as needed to protect public health, but at least once each year. The CDC must build an epidemiologic database and run long-term studies to learn who is infected, how the infection progresses over time, and to make models of long-term spread in the U.S. and worldwide. The Secretary can use grants, agreements, or contracts, including with federal agencies, to do this. The Secretary may give grants for long-term research on treatments based on the agent’s genetics. The NIMH Director may give grants for psychological and social research about AIDS. Congress may provide whatever money is needed each fiscal year, and funds appropriated for the treatment research in the previous sentence will remain available until expended.

Title 42, §300cc–20

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(a)(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)(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 11 So in original. or contracts with, public and nonprofit private entities, including Federal agencies.

(c)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)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)(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) shall remain available until expended.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1993—Subsec. (b)(1)(A). Pub. L. 103–43, § 1811(5), inserted “and the natural history of such infection” after “syndrome”. Subsec. (e)(1). Pub. L. 103–43, § 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”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 1988 AmendmentAmendment 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.

§300cc–20 Additional authority with respect to research