IV 
117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 296 
Supporting the goals and ideals of National Youth HIV & AIDS Awareness 
Day. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 8, 2021 
Ms. LEE of California (for herself, Mr. DANNY K. DAVIS of Illinois, Ms. WIL-
SON of Florida, Ms. SEWELL, Mr. RUSH, Ms. CLARKE of New York, Mr. 
KHANNA, and Mr. TONKO) submitted the following resolution; which was 
referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 
RESOLUTION 
Supporting the goals and ideals of National Youth HIV 
& AIDS Awareness Day. 
Whereas National Youth HIV & AIDS Awareness Day is a 
nationwide observance that calls on people to take action 
to invest in the health, education, and leadership of 
young people; 
Whereas more than 30 years into the epidemic, the Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 
in the United States more than 1,200,000 people are liv-
ing with HIV, and every year approximately 40,000 peo-
ple acquire HIV; 
Whereas in the United States, almost 40 percent of new HIV 
infections are young people ages 13 to 20; 
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Whereas 44 percent of young people living with HIV 
(YPLWHIV) ages 13 to 24 are unaware of their HIV 
status; 
Whereas African-American youth are most impacted by the 
epidemic, representing 57 percent of new transmissions 
in young people ages 13 to 24; 
Whereas African-American young men who have sex with 
men (YMSM) ages 13 to 24 comprise 51 percent of new 
transmissions among all YMSM; 
Whereas the Division of Adolescent and School Health 
(DASH) is the only Federal program supporting HIV 
prevention for adolescents in schools; 
Whereas the Nation’s largest Federal program dedicated to 
providing care and treatment for people living with HIV 
was named after Ryan White, a teenager from Indiana 
who helped educate a Nation about HIV and AIDS in the 
1980s; 
Whereas the Ryan White Part D Program is one of the na-
tional efforts to link YPLWHIV to medical care and sup-
port services; 
Whereas the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act 
(PPACA) provides youth, including those living with or 
impacted by HIV and AIDS, better access to health care 
coverage, more health insurance options, additional fund-
ing for sex education, a prohibition against denying peo-
ple living with HIV access to health care, and expanded 
access to Medicaid which will support more YPLWHIV 
receiving care; and 
Whereas April 10 of each year is now recognized as National 
Youth HIV & AIDS Awareness Day: Now, therefore, be 
it 
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Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) supports the goals and ideals of National 
Youth HIV & AIDS Awareness Day; 
(2) encourages State and local governments, in-
cluding their public health agencies, education agen-
cies, schools, and media organizations to recognize 
and support such a day; 
(3) supports young people’s right to education, 
prevention, treatment, and care, and to live without 
criminalization, discrimination, oppression, and stig-
ma; 
(4) promotes up-to-date, inclusive, culturally re-
sponsible, and medically accurate information about 
HIV, such as pre-exposure prophylaxis, in sex edu-
cation curricula to ensure that all young people are 
educated about HIV, as called for in the National 
HIV/AIDS Strategy; 
(5) supports removal of HIV laws that are sci-
entifically inaccurate and unfairly criminalize young 
people living with HIV for behaviors that are con-
sensual or have no risk of transmissions; 
(6) urges youth-friendly and accessible health 
care services, especially access to medications such 
as pre-exposure prophylaxis, post-exposure prophy-
laxis, and antiretroviral therapy without parental 
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consent, to better provide for the early identification 
of HIV through voluntary routine testing, and to 
connect those in need to clinically and culturally ap-
propriate care and treatment as early as possible; 
(7) supports the increase of funding for pro-
grams that support people impacted by and living 
with HIV, including CDC DASH, the Ryan White 
HIV/AIDS Program, the Medicaid program, AIDS 
Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs), and programs 
that support medical mentorship, peer navigation, 
educating communities on testing and treatment op-
tions, and people accessing PrEP, and ensure a 
smoother transition to adult HIV care; 
(8) recommends a comprehensive prevention 
and treatment strategy that empowers young people, 
parents, public health workers, educators, faith lead-
ers, and other stakeholders to fully engage with their 
communities and families to help decrease violence, 
discrimination, and stigma towards individuals who 
disclose their sexual orientation or HIV status; and 
(9) calls for a generation free of HIV stigma in 
a manner that prioritizes youth leadership and devel-
opment in order to ensure youth involvement in deci-
sions which impact their health and well-being as 
well as advance a pipeline for the next generation of 
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HIV and AIDS doctors, advocates, educators, re-
searchers, and other professionals. 
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