---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 300ee–33"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "300ee–33"
heading: "Provision of information to underserved populations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/300ee-33"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter XXIII — Prevention of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome"
  - "Part B — National Information Programs"
---

# §300ee–33. Provision of information to underserved populations

- (a) **In general—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) may make grants to public entities, to migrant health centers (as defined in [section 254b(a)](/usc/42/254b.md?p=a)[^1] of this title), to community health centers (as defined in [section 254c(a)](/usc/42/254c.md?p=a)[^1] of this title), and to [nonprofit](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=3) private entities concerned with acquired immune deficiency syndrome, for the purpose of assisting grantees in providing [services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) to populations of individuals that are underserved with respect to [programs](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) providing information on the prevention of exposure to, and the transmission of, the etiologic agent for acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
- (b) **Preferences in making grants—** In making grants under [subsection (a)](#a), the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) shall give preference to any applicant for such a grant that has the ability to disseminate rapidly the information described in [subsection (a)](#a) (including any national organization with such ability).

## Footnotes

[^1]: See References in Text note below.

## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XXV, formerly title XV, § 2523, 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.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Sections 254b and 254c of this title, referred to in subsec. (a), were in the original references to sections 329 and 330, meaning sections 329 and 330 of act July 1, 1944, which were omitted in the general amendment of subpart I (§ 254b et seq.) of part D of subchapter II of this chapter by Pub. L. 104–299, § 2, Oct. 11, 1996, 110 Stat. 3626. Sections 2 and 3(a) of Pub. L. 104–299 enacted new sections 330 and 330A of act July 1, 1944, which are classified, respectively, to sections 254b and 254c of this title.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Reference to Community, Migrant, Public Housing, or Homeless Health Center Considered Reference to Health Center

Reference to community health center, migrant health center, public housing health center, or homeless health center considered reference to health center, see section 4(c) of Pub. L. 104–299, set out as a note under section 254b of this title.