42 U.S.C. § 285g–5 — Research centers with respect to contraception and infertility
submitted 82 years ago by Pub. L. 103-43 to r/title-42-THE-PUBLIC-HEALTH-AND-WELFARE · 413 words · no verdicts yet
The Institute's Director must fund centers researching contraception and infertility. The Director must set up three contraception centers and two infertility centers, funding allowing. Centers run clinical trials, train professionals, and share information for up to five years.
(a) Grants and contracts: After consulting the Institute's advisory council, the Director* must give grants to, or contract with, public or nonprofit private groups to run centers improving contraception methods, and centers improving infertility diagnosis and treatment*.
(b) Number of centers: Subject to available funding, the Director must set up three contraception centers and two infertility centers.
(c) Duties: (1) Each center must (A) do clinical and other applied research, including (i) for contraception centers, clinical trials of new or better drugs and devices for men and women, including barrier methods, and (ii) for infertility centers, clinical trials of new or better drugs and devices for diagnosing and treating infertility in men and women; (B) develop training protocols for physicians, scientists, nurses, and health professionals; (C) run training programs for them; (D) develop model continuing-education programs; and (E) share information with these professionals and the public. (2) A center may use its funding to pay stipends to health professionals in these training programs, and fees to people who take part in the clinical trials as subjects.
(d) Coordination of information: The Director must, as appropriate, coordinate information among these centers.
(e) Facilities: Each center must use a single institution's facilities, or a qualifying consortium*, meeting the Director's requirements.
(f) Period of support: Support lasts up to 5 years at a time, extendable for more 5-year periods if a peer-review group reviews the center's work and recommends the extension.
The Director* of the Institute, after consultation with the advisory council for the Institute, shall make grants to, or enter into contracts with, public or nonprofit private entities for the development and operation of centers to conduct activities for the purpose of improving methods of contraception and centers to conduct activities for the purpose of improving methods of diagnosis and treatment* of infertility.
In carrying out subsection (a), the Director of the Institute shall, subject to the extent of amounts made available in appropriations Acts, provide for the establishment of three centers with respect to contraception and for two centers with respect to infertility.
Each center assisted under this section shall, in carrying out the purpose of the center involved—
conduct clinical and other applied research, including—
for centers with respect to contraception, clinical trials of new or improved drugs and devices for use by males and females (including barrier methods); and
for centers with respect to infertility, clinical trials of new or improved drugs and devices for the diagnosis and treatment of infertility in males and females;
develop protocols for training physicians, scientists, nurses, and other health and allied health professionals;
conduct training programs for such individuals;
develop model continuing education programs for such professionals; and
disseminate information to such professionals and the public.
A center may use funds provided under subsection (a) to provide stipends for health and allied health professionals enrolled in programs described in subparagraph (C) of paragraph (1), and to provide fees to individuals serving as subjects in clinical trials conducted under such paragraph.
The Director of the Institute shall, as appropriate, provide for the coordination of information among the centers assisted under this section.
Each center assisted under subsection (a) shall use the facilities of a single institution, or be formed from a consortium* of cooperating institutions, meeting such requirements as may be prescribed by the Director of the Institute.
Support of a center under subsection (a) may be for a period not exceeding 5 years. Such period may be extended for one or more additional periods not exceeding 5 years if the operations of such center have been reviewed by an appropriate technical and scientific peer review group established by the Director and if such group has recommended to the Director that such period should be extended.
Source credit: (July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title IV, § 452A, as added Pub. L. 103–43, title X, § 1001, June 10, 1993, 107 Stat. 165; amended Pub. L. 109–482, title I, § 103(b)(29), Jan. 15, 2007, 120 Stat. 3688.)
- 1944Enacted · Pub. L. 103-43 · 107 Stat. 165
- 2007Amended · Pub. L. 109-482 · 120 Stat. 3688
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 103-43 on 1944-07-01.
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