---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 300ee–32"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "300ee–32"
heading: "Public information campaigns"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/300ee-32"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter XXIII — Prevention of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome"
  - "Part B — National Information Programs"
---

# §300ee–32. Public information campaigns

- (a) **In general—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c), acting through the [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, may make grants to public entities, and to [nonprofit](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=3) private entities concerned with acquired immune deficiency syndrome, and shall enter into contracts with public and private entities, for the development and delivery of public [service](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) announcements and paid advertising messages that warn individuals about activities which place them at risk of infection with the etiologic agent for such syndrome.
- (b) **Requirement of application—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) may not provide financial assistance under [subsection (a)](#a) unless—
  - (1) an application for such assistance is submitted to the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c);
  - (2) with respect to carrying out the purpose for which the assistance is to be provided, the application provides assurances of compliance satisfactory to the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c); and
  - (3) the application otherwise is in such form, is made in such manner, and contains such agreements, assurances, and information as the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) determines to be necessary to carry out this section.

## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XXV, formerly title XV, § 2522, as added Pub. L. 100–607, title II, § 221, Nov. 4, 1988, 102 Stat. 3103; renumbered title XXV, Pub. L. 101–93, § 5(e)(1), Aug. 16, 1989, 103 Stat. 612; amended Pub. L. 102–531, title III, § 312(d)(23), Oct. 27, 1992, 106 Stat. 3505.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1992—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 102–531 substituted “Centers for Disease Control and Prevention” for “Centers for Disease Control”.