§ 300cc-13. Terry Beirn Community-Based AIDS Research Initiative
(a)
In general
After consultation with the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, the Director of the National Institutes of Health, acting through the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, may make grants to public entities and nonprofit private entities concerned with acquired immune deficiency syndrome, and may enter into contracts with public and private such [1] entities, for the purpose of planning and conducting, in the community involved, clinical trials of experimental treatments for infection with the etiologic agent for such syndrome that are approved by the Commissioner of Food and Drugs for investigational use under regulations issued under section
355 of title
21.
(b)
Requirement of certain projects
(1)
Financial assistance under subsection (a) of this section shall include such assistance to community-based organizations and community health centers for the purpose of—
(2)
(A)
Financial assistance under subsection (a) of this section shall include such assistance for demonstration projects designed to implement and conduct community-based clinical trials in order to provide access to the entire scope of communities affected by infections with the etiologic agent for acquired immune deficiency syndrome, including minorities, hemophiliacs and transfusion-exposed individuals, women, children, users of intravenous drugs, and individuals who are asymptomatic with respect to such infection.
(B)
The Director of the National Institutes of Health may not provide financial assistance under this paragraph unless the application for such assistance is approved—
(ii)
by a duly constituted Institutional Review Board that meets the requirements of part 56 of title
21, Code of Federal Regulations; and
(c)
Participation of private industry, schools of medicine and primary providers
Programs carried out with financial assistance provided under subsection (a) of this section shall be designed to encourage private industry and schools of medicine, osteopathic medicine, and existing consortia of primary care providers organized to conduct clinical research concerning acquired immune deficiency syndrome to participate in, and to support, the clinical trials conducted pursuant to the programs.
(d)
Requirement of application
The Secretary may not provide financial assistance under subsection (a) of this section unless—
(e)
Authorization of appropriations
[1] So in original.