22 U.S.C. § 290e — Congressional declaration of policy
submitted 78 years ago by Pub. L. 85-477 to r/title-22-FOREIGN-RELATIONS-AND-INTERCOURSE · 118 words · no verdicts yet
Congress says fighting widespread diseases, like heart disease and cancer, is a national policy goal. Diseases slow countries' economic growth, so the U.S. will work with other nations on research. Congress invites the World Health Organization to help strengthen research into these and other diseases worldwide.
Congress recognized that widespread diseases cause a lot of suffering and death, and that this gets in the way of countries trying to grow their economies and improve people's lives. Because of this, Congress made it official U.S. policy to continue and strengthen joint efforts among nations to research diseases like heart disease and cancer.
As part of this policy, Congress invited the World Health Organization to start studies aimed at strengthening research and related programs against these and other diseases — both ones common to many parts of the world and ones unique to particular regions.
The Congress of the United States, recognizing that the diseases of mankind, because of their widespread prevalence, debilitating effects, and heavy toll in human life, constitute a major deterrent to the efforts of many peoples to develop their economic resources and productive capacities, and to improve their living conditions, declares it to be the policy of the United States to continue and strengthen mutual efforts among the nations for research against diseases such as heart disease and cancer. In furtherance of this policy, the Congress invites the World Health Organization to initiate studies looking toward the strengthening of research and related programs against these and other diseases common to mankind or unique to individual regions of the globe.
Source credit: (June 14, 1948, ch. 469, § 6, as added Pub. L. 85–477, ch. V, § 502(m), June 30, 1958, 72 Stat. 275.)
- 1948Enacted · Pub. L. 85-477 · 72 Stat. 275
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