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PUBLIC LAW 92-449-SEPT. 30, 1972

(5) the number of cases of congenital sypJiilis, a preventable disease, in infants under one year of age increased by 33l^ per centum between 1970 and 1971; (6) health education programs in schools and through the mass media may prevent a substantial portion of the venereal disease problem; and (7) medical authorities have no successful vaccine for syphilis or gonorrhea and no blood test for the detection of gonorrhea among the large reservoir of asymptomatic females. (b) I n order to preserve and protect the health and welfare of all citizens, it is the purpose of this Act to establish a national program for the prevention and control of venereal disease. SEC. 203. Part B of title III of the Public Health Service Act is amended by adding immediately after section 317 thereof the following new section:

58 Stat. 6 9 3. 42 USC 2 4 3. Ante, p. 748.

P R O J E C T S AXD PROGRAMS FOR THE P R E V E N T I O N A X D CONTROL OF VENEREAL DISEASE

318. (a) The Secretary may provide technical assistance to appropriate public authorities and scientific institutions for their research, training, and public health programs for the prevention and control of venereal disease. " (b)(1) The Secretary is authorized to make grants to States, political subdivisions of States, and any other public or nonprofit private entity for projects for the conduct of research, demonstrations, and training for the prevention and control of venereal disease. " (2) For the purpose of carrying out this subsection, there is authorized to be appropriated $7,500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1973, and for each of the next two fiscal years. "(c)(1) There is authorized to be appropriated $25,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1973, and for each of the next two fiscal years, to enable the Secretary to make grants to State health authorities to assist the States in establishing and maintaining adequate public health programs for the diagnosis and treatment of venereal disease. For purposes of this subsection, the term 'State' means each of the several States of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. "(2) Any State desiring to receive a grant under this subsection shall submit to the Secretary a State plan for a public health program for the diagnosis and treatment of venereal disease. Each State plan shall— " (A) provide for the administration or supervision of administration of the State plan by the State health authority; " (B) set forth the policies and procedures to be followed in the expenditure of the funds paid to the State under this subsection; " (C) provide that the public health services furnished under the State plan will include the provision of Statewide laboratory services (including dark field microscope techniques for the diagnosis of both gonorrhea and syphilis), which services will be provided in accordance with standards prescribed by regulations, including standards as to the scope and quality of such services; " (D) contain or be supported by assurances satisfactory to the Secretary that (i) not less than 70 per centum of the funds paid to the State under this subsection will be used to provide and strengthen public health services in its political subdivisions for the diagnosis and treatment of venereal disease; (ii) such funds ''SEC.

Technical assistance.

Appropriations.

'State."

State plan requirements.

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