Title 42, The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-110

§247b–9 Diabetes in Children and Youth

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

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary, through the CDC Director, must set up a sentinel system to track juvenile diabetes and keep a national database of that data. The Secretary must also run a national effort on type 2 diabetes in youth to improve surveillance and research (including checking how often it is misdiagnosed as type 1) and to develop better lab tests and noninvasive or improved ways to monitor blood glucose to prevent low blood sugar (hypoglycemia). Money may be provided as needed for each of the fiscal years 2001 through 2005.

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Title 42, §247b–9

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(a)Surveillance on juvenile diabetes

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)Type 2 diabetes in youth

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)Authorization of appropriations

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

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110