Title 42, The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-110

§300cc–40 Establishment of Office

Title 42 › 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 › § 300cc–40

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

Creates an Office of AIDS Research inside the National Institutes of Health. A director, picked by the Secretary, will lead the office. The director must plan, coordinate, and review all AIDS research and related activities done or paid for by NIH. The director must check each NIH agency’s AIDS work now and again. The director must work with NIH agency leaders and advisory councils when making and updating the required plan. The director is the main federal official for NIH AIDS research, represents the program on Executive branch groups, and keeps other health agencies and federal departments informed so advances and treatment information reach communities and doctors.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §300cc–40

The Public Health and Welfare, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(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–40c 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–40b 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)

(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.

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 300cc–40

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110