102 STAT. 3076

PUBLIC LAW 100-607—NOV. 4, 1988

"PART C—RESEARCH TRAINING

42 USC
SOOcc-81.
Health care
professionals.

42 USC
300cc-41.

"SEC 2341. FELLOWSHIPS AND TRAINING.

"(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary, acting through the Director of
the Centers for Disease Control, shall establish fellowship and train-
ing programs to be conducted by the Centers for Disease Control to
train individuals to develop skills in epidemiology, surveillance,
testing, counseling, education, information, and laboratory analysis
relating to acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Such programs
shall be designed to enable health professionals and health person-
nel trained under such programs to work, after receiving such
training, in national and international efforts toward the pre-
vention, diagnosis, and treatment of acquired immune deficiency
syndrome.

"(b) PROGRAMS CONDUCTED BY NATIONAL INSTITUTE OP MENTAL
HEALTH.—The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Na-
tional Institute of Mental Health, shall conduct or support fellow-
ship and training programs for individuals pursuing graduate or
postgraduate study in order to train such individuals to conduct
scientific research into the psychological and social sciences as such
sciences relate to acquired immune deficiency syndrome.

"(c) RELATIONSHIP TO LIMITATION ON NUMBER OP EMPLOYEES.—
Any individual receiving a fellowship or receiving training under
subsection (a) or (b) shall not be included in any determination of the
number of full-time equivalent employees of the Department of
Health and Human Services for the purpose of any limitation on the
number of such employees established by law prior to, on, or after
the date of the enactment of the AIDS Federal Policy Act of 1988.
"(d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS,—For the purpose of
carrying out this section, there are authorized to be appropriated
such sums as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 1989
through 1991.

"PART D—SPECIAL AUTHORITIES OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL
INSTITUTES OF HEALTH

"SEC 2351. ESTABLISHMENT OF AUTHORITIES.

"(a) IN GENERAL.—In carrying out research with respect to ac-
quired immune deficiency syndrome, the Secretary, acting through
the Director of the National Institutes of Health—

"(1XA) shall establish an office to be known as the Office of
AIDS Research, which Office shall be headed by a Director
appointed by the Director of the National Institutes of Health;
and

"(B) shall provide administrative support and support services
to the Director of such Office;

"(2) shall coordinate activities relating to acquired immune
deficiency syndrome conducted by the national research in-
stitutes and the agencies of the National Institutes of Health;
"(3) shall develop and expand clinical trials of treatments and
therapies for infection with the etipiogic agent for acquired
immune deficiency syndrome, including such clinical trials for
women, infants, children, hemophiliacs, and minorities;

"(4) may establish or support the large-scale development and
preclinical screening, production, or distribution of specialized
"' materials and other therapeutic substances for