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117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1045 
Supporting the goals and ideals of ‘‘National Youth HIV/AIDS Awareness 
Day’’. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 7, 2022 
Ms. LEE of California (for herself, Ms. SEWELL, Mr. DANNY K. DAVIS of Illi-
nois, Ms. NORTON, Mr. TONKO, Ms. MENG, Mrs. HAYES, Mr. CICILLINE, 
Ms. BASS, Mr. LIEU, Ms. DEAN, Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN, Mr. TAKANO, 
Ms. BARRAGA´N, Mr. RUSH, and Ms. TITUS) submitted the following reso-
lution; 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 40 years into the epidemic, the Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that in the 
United States more than 1,200,000 people are living with 
HIV, and every year approximately 40,000 people acquire 
HIV; 
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Whereas, in 2019, youth aged 13 to 24 years composed 21 
percent of the 36,398 new HIV diagnoses in the United 
States; 
Whereas young people living with HIV are the least likely of 
any age group to be retained in care and have a sup-
pressed viral load; 
Whereas 44 percent of young people living with HIV 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 ages 13 to 24 comprise 34 percent or one-third of 
new transmissions among all young men who have sex 
with men; 
Whereas the National HIV/AIDS Strategy expands the fact 
that youth experience worse HIV outcomes on status 
awareness, pre-exposure prophylaxis uptake, and health 
outcomes; 
Whereas the National HIV/AIDS Strategy recommends chil-
dren and young adults with HIV need tailored and often 
more intensive medical and support services to support 
them as they grow and become young adults; 
Whereas the Division of Adolescent and School Health 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; 
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Whereas the Ryan White Part D Program is one of the na-
tional efforts to link young people living with HIV to 
medical care and support services; 
Whereas the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act pro-
vides youth, including those living with or impacted by 
HIV and AIDS, better access to health care coverage, 
more health insurance options, additional funding for sex 
education, a prohibition against denying people living 
with HIV access to health care, and expanded access to 
Medicaid which will support more young people living 
with HIV receiving care; and 
Whereas April 10 of each year is now recognized as ‘‘Na-
tional Youth HIV/AIDS Awareness Day’’: Now, there-
fore, be it 
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 PreP, in sex 
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education curricula to ensure that all young people 
are educated about HIV, as called for in the Na-
tional 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 transmission; 
(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 
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 Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention Division of Adolescent and School 
Health, the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program, the 
Medicaid program, AIDS Drug Assistance Pro-
grams, 
and 
programs 
that 
support 
medical 
mentorship, peer navigation, educating communities 
on testing and treatment options, and people access-
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