42 U.S.C. § 300cc–15 — Support of international efforts

(a) Grants and contracts for research: (1) Under section 242l of this title, the Secretary — acting through the Director of NIH — (A) must, for the purpose in (2), give grants, cooperative agreements, contracts, and technical assistance to international public health organizations, and (B) may also give technical assistance to foreign governments for that purpose. (2) That purpose is promoting and speeding up international research and training on how HIV develops and progresses in the body, and on developing and testing vaccines and treatments for AIDS and related opportunistic infections. (b) Grants and contracts for additional purposes: After consulting the Administrator of the Agency for International Development, the Secretary — acting through the Director of the CDC — must, under section 242l, give grants, contracts, and technical assistance to international public health organizations, and may give technical assistance to foreign governments, to support (1) training projects that build skills for preventing, diagnosing, and treating AIDS, and (2) epidemiological research on AIDS. (c) Special Programme of World Health Organization: All support given under this section must further the global strategy of the World Health Organization's Special Programme on AIDS. (d) Preferences: When giving out the support described in (a) and (b), the Secretary must (1) prefer activities run by, or done together with, the World Health Organization, and (2) for activities in the Western Hemisphere, prefer ones run by, or done together with, the Pan American Health Organization or the World Health Organization. (e) Requirement of application: The Secretary cannot make a grant or sign a cooperative agreement or contract under this section unless (1) an application is submitted, (2) the application gives satisfactory assurances of compliance, and (3) the application is in whatever form, made in whatever manner, and contains whatever agreements, assurances, and information the Secretary decides are necessary. (f) Authorization of appropriations: Congress could appropriate whatever money was needed to carry out this section for each fiscal year.