---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 U.S.C. § 1751"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Veterans’ Benefits"
number: "1751"
heading: "Screening, counseling, and medical treatment"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/38/1751"
units:
  - "Part II — General Benefits"
  - "Chapter 17 — Hospital, Nursing Home, Domiciliary, and Medical Care"
  - "Subchapter VI — Sickle Cell Anemia"
---

# §1751. Screening, counseling, and medical treatment


The [Secretary](/usc/38/101.md?p=1) is authorized to carry out a comprehensive program of providing sickle cell anemia screening, counseling, treatment, and information under the provisions of this chapter.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 93–82, title I, § 109(a), Aug. 2, 1973, 87 Stat. 186, § 651; renumbered § 1751 and amended Pub. L. 102–83, §§ 4(b)(1), (2)(E), 5(a), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 404–406.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1991—Pub. L. 102–83 renumbered section 651 of this title as this section and substituted “Secretary” for “Administrator”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Sept. 1, 1973, see section 501 of Pub. L. 93–82, set out as an Effective Date of 1973 Amendment note under section 1701 of this title.