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 102 STAT. 3076

PUBLIC LAW 100-607—NOV. 4, 1988 'TART C—RESEARCH TRAINING

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300CC-31. Health care professionals.

"SEC 2341. FELLOWSHIPS AND TRAINING.

"(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control, shall establish fellowship and training programs to be conducted by the Centers for Disease Control to train individuals to develop skills in epidemiology, surveillance, testing, counseling, education, information, and laboratory analysis relatii^ to acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Such programs shall be designed to enable health professionals and health personnel trained under such programs to work, after receiving such training, in national and international efforts toward the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of acquired immune deficiency syndrome. "(b) PROGRAMS CONDUCTED BY NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL

HEALTH.—The Secretary, acting through the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, shall conduct or support fellowship and training programs for individuals pursuing graduate or postgiBduate study in order to train such individuals to conduct scientific research into the psychological and social sciences as such sciences relate to acquired immune deficiency syndrome. "(c) RELATIONSHIP TO LIMITATION ON NUMBER OP EMPLOYEES.—

Any individual receiving a fellowship or receiving training under subsection (a) or (b) shall not be included in any determination of the number of full-time equivalent employees of the Department of Health and Human Services for the purpose of any limitation on the number of such employees established by law prior to, on, or after the date of the enactment of the AIDS Federal Policy Act of 1988. "(d) AUTHORIZATION OP APPROPRIATIONS.—For the purpose of

carrying out this section, there are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessazy for each of the fiscal years 1989 through 1991. '*PAirr D—SPECIAL AUTHORITIES OP THE DIRECTOR OP THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OP HEALTH

42 USC

300CC-41.

"SEC 2351. ESTABLISHMENT OF AUTHORITIES.

"(a) IN GENERAL.—In carrying out research with respect to acquired immune deficiency syndrome, the Secretary, acting through the Director of the National Institutes of Health— "(IKA) shall establish an office to be known as the Office of AIDS Research, which Office shall be headed by a Director appointed by the Director of the National Institutes of Health; and "(B) shall provide administrative support and support services to the Director of such Office; "(2) shall coordinate activities relating to acquired immune deficiency syndrome conducted by the national research institutes and the agencies of the National Institutes of Health; "(3) shall develop and expand clinical trials of treatments and therapies for infection with the etiologic agent for acquired immune deficiency syndrome, including such clinical trials for women, infants, children, hemophiliacs, and minorities; "(4) may establish or support the large-scale development and preclinical screening, production, or distribution of specialized biological materials and other therapeutic substances for

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