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U.S. Code > Title 42 > Chapter 6A > Subchapter II > Part A > § 242k - National Center for Health Statistics

(a) Cooperative endeavors
  The Secretary may participate with other countries in cooperative
endeavors in - 
    (1) biomedical research, health care technology, and the health
  services research and statistical analysis authorized under
  section 242k of this title and subchapter VII; and
    (2) biomedical research, health care services, health care
  research, or other related activities in furtherance of the
  activities, objectives or goals authorized under the Tom Lantos
  and Henry J. Hyde United States Global Leadership Against
  HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Reauthorization Act of 2008.
(b) Authority of Secretary; building construction prohibition
  In connection with the cooperative endeavors authorized by
subsection (a) of this section, the Secretary may - 
    (1) make such use of resources offered by participating foreign
  countries as he may find necessary and appropriate;
    (2) establish and maintain fellowships in the United States and
  in participating foreign countries;
    (3) make grants to public institutions or agencies and to
  nonprofit private institutions or agencies in the United States
  and in participating foreign countries for the purpose of
  establishing and maintaining the fellowships authorized by
  paragraph (2);
    (4) make grants or loans of equipment and materials, for use by
  public or nonprofit institutions or agencies, or by individuals,
  in participating foreign countries;
    (5) participate and otherwise cooperate in any international
  meetings, conferences, or other activities concerned with
  biomedical research, health services research, health statistics,
  or health care technology;
    (6) facilitate the interchange between the United States and
  participating foreign countries, and among participating foreign
  countries, of research scientists and experts who are engaged in
  experiments or programs of biomedical research, health services
  research, health statistical activities, or health care
  technology activities, and in carrying out such purpose may pay
  per diem compensation, subsistence, and travel for such
  scientists and experts when away from their places of residence
  at rates not to exceed those provided in section 5703(b) (!1) of
  title 5 for persons in the Government service employed
  intermittently;

    (7) procure, in accordance with section 3109 of title 5, the
  temporary or intermittent services of experts or consultants;
    (8) enter into contracts with individuals for the provision of
  services (as defined in section 104 of part 37 of title 48, Code
  of Federal Regulations (48 CFR 37.104)) in participating foreign
  countries, which individuals may not be deemed employees of the
  United States for the purpose of any law administered by the
  Office of Personnel Management;
    (9) provide such funds by advance or reimbursement to the
  Secretary of State, as may be necessary, to pay the costs of
  acquisition, lease, construction, alteration, equipping,
  furnishing or management of facilities outside of the United
  States; and
    (10) in consultation with the Secretary of State, through grant
  or cooperative agreement, make funds available to public or
  nonprofit private institutions or agencies in foreign countries
  in which the Secretary is participating in activities described
  under subsection (a) to acquire, lease, construct, alter, or
  renovate facilities in those countries.
(c) Benefits for overseas assignees
  The Secretary may provide to personnel appointed or assigned by
the Secretary to serve abroad, allowances and benefits similar to
those provided under chapter 9 of title I of the Foreign Service
Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 4081 et seq.). Leaves of absence for
personnel under this subsection shall be on the same basis as that
provided under subchapter I of chapter 63 of title 5 or section 903
of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 4083) to individuals
serving in the Foreign Service.
(d) Strategies to improve injection safety
  In carrying out immunization programs and other programs in
developing countries for the prevention, treatment, and control of
infectious diseases, including HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria,
the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in
coordination with the Coordinator of United States Government
Activities to Combat HIV/AIDS Globally, the National Institutes of
Health, national and local government, and other organizations,
such as the World Health Organization and the United Nations
Children's Fund, shall develop and implement effective strategies
to improve injection safety, including eliminating unnecessary
injections, promoting sterile injection practices and technologies,
strengthening the procedures for proper needle and syringe
disposal, and improving the education and information provided to
the public and to health professionals.

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