PUBLIC LAW 109–129—DEC. 20, 2005
119 STAT. 2557
‘‘(E) has established a system for encouraging donation by a genetically diverse group of donors; and ‘‘(F) has established a system to confidentially maintain linkage between a cord blood unit and a maternal donor. ‘‘(e) BONE MARROW RECRUITMENT; PRIORITIES; INFORMATION AND EDUCATION.— ‘‘(1) RECRUITMENT; PRIORITIES.—The Program shall carry out activities for the recruitment of bone marrow donors. Such recruitment program shall identify populations that are underrepresented among potential donors enrolled with the Program. In the case of populations that are identified under the preceding sentence: ‘‘(A) The Program shall give priority to carrying out activities under this part to increase representation for such populations in order to enable a member of such a population, to the extent practicable, to have a probability of finding a suitable unrelated donor that is comparable to the probability that an individual who is not a member of an underrepresented population would have. ‘‘(B) The Program shall consider racial and ethnic minority groups (including persons of mixed ancestry) to be populations that have been identified for purposes of this paragraph, and shall carry out subparagraph (A) with respect to such populations. ‘‘(2) INFORMATION AND EDUCATION REGARDING RECRUITMENT; TESTING AND ENROLLMENT.— ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The Program shall carry out informational and educational activities, in coordination with organ donation public awareness campaigns operated through the Department of Health and Human Services, for purposes of recruiting individuals to serve as donors of bone marrow, and shall test and enroll with the Program potential bone marrow donors. Such information and educational activities shall include the following: ‘‘(i) Making information available to the general public, including information describing the needs of patients with respect to donors of bone marrow. ‘‘(ii) Educating and providing information to individuals who are willing to serve as potential bone marrow donors. ‘‘(iii) Training individuals in requesting individuals to serve as potential bone marrow donors. ‘‘(B) PRIORITIES.—In carrying out informational and educational activities under subparagraph (A), the Program shall give priority to recruiting individuals to serve as donors of bone marrow for populations that are identified under paragraph (1). ‘‘(3) TRANSPLANTATION AS TREATMENT OPTION.—In addition to activities regarding recruitment, the recruitment program under paragraph (1) shall provide information to physicians, other health care professionals, and the public regarding bone marrow transplants from unrelated donors as a treatment option. ‘‘(4) IMPLEMENTATION OF SUBSECTION.—The requirements of this subsection shall be carried out by the entity that has been awarded a contract by the Secretary under subsection (a) to carry out the functions described in subsection (d)(1).
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