---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 300dd–31"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "300dd–31"
heading: "Grants for anonymous testing"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/300dd-31"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter XXII — Health Services with Respect to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome"
  - "Part C — Other Health Services"
---

# §300dd–31. Grants for anonymous testing


The [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) may make grants to the [States](/usc/42/201.md?p=f) for the purpose of providing opportunities for individuals—

- (1) to undergo counseling and testing with respect to the etiologic agent for acquired immune deficiency syndrome without being required to provide any information relating to the identity of the individuals; and
- (2) to undergo such counseling and testing through the use of a pseudonym.

## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XXIV, § 2431, as added Pub. L. 100–607, title II, § 211, Nov. 4, 1988, 102 Stat. 3090.)