42 U.S.C. § 300ff–111 — HIV/AIDS communities, schools, and centers

(a) Schools; centers (1) The Secretary can give grants and contracts to public and nonprofit entities, schools, and academic health science centers to cover costs of projects that: (A) train health workers — including providers in this subchapter's programs and other community providers — in diagnosing, treating, and preventing HIV/AIDS, including preventing mother-to-child transmission, treating opportunistic infections, and giving prenatal and gynecological care to women with HIV/AIDS where relevant to that provider's field; (B) train faculty at medical, nursing, osteopathic medicine, dental, public health, allied health, and mental health schools to teach students how to care for people with HIV/AIDS; (C) create and share curricula and resource materials on treating the disease and preventing it among at-risk people; and (D) develop medical-care protocols for women with HIV/AIDS, including prenatal and gynecological care. (2) In awarding these grants, the Secretary must favor projects that will: (A) train health professionals to treat minority individuals, Native Americans, and other high-risk groups; (B) train minority health professionals and allied health professionals to treat people with the disease; and (C) train health professionals to treat people co-infected with hepatitis B or C. (3) No grant or contract is allowed unless an application is submitted the way the Secretary requires. (b) Dental schools (1)(A) The Secretary may give grants to eligible dental schools and programs to help with oral health care for HIV/AIDS patients. (B) Eligible schools and programs are those that were covered under section 294o(b)(4)(B) as it stood before November 13, 1998, plus dental hygiene programs accredited by the Commission on Dental Accreditation. (2) Each eligible school or program may apply each year, documenting its unreimbursed costs from providing oral health care to HIV/AIDS patients the prior year. (3) The Secretary divides the available money among eligible applicants based on how many HIV/AIDS patients each served and how much unreimbursed cost each incurred, compared to the totals for all applicants. (4) The Secretary can't make a grant here if doing so would cause a State to cut its own funding for this purpose. (5) The Secretary may also fund dental schools and programs that partner with community dentists to serve underserved areas. These partnerships must let dental students and residents train there and let community dentists serve as adjunct faculty. (c) Authorization of appropriations (1) For the school and center grants in subsection (a): Congress may appropriate $34,700,000 for each of fiscal years 2007–2009, $36,535,000 for 2010, $38,257,000 for 2011, $40,170,000 for 2012, and $42,178,000 for 2013. (2) For the dental school grants in subsection (b): Congress may appropriate $13,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2007–2009, $13,650,000 for 2010, $14,333,000 for 2011, $15,049,000 for 2012, and $15,802,000 for 2013.