IV 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 919 
Commemorating and supporting the goals of World AIDS Day. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 2, 2025 
Mr. POCAN (for himself, Mr. FITZPATRICK, Ms. BARRAGA´N, Ms. BROWNLEY, 
Mr. COHEN, Mr. DAVIS of Illinois, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Ms. KELLY 
of Illinois, Ms. MOORE of Wisconsin, Ms. NORTON, Mr. QUIGLEY, Ms. 
SEWELL, Mr. SOTO, Mr. THANEDAR, Mr. TORRES of New York, Ms. 
VELA´ZQUEZ, and Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN) submitted the following reso-
lution; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 
and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee con-
cerned 
RESOLUTION 
Commemorating and supporting the goals of World AIDS 
Day. 
Whereas, as of the end of 2024, an estimated 40,800,000 
people were living with human immunodeficiency virus 
(referred to in this preamble as ‘‘HIV’’) or acquired im-
munodeficiency syndrome (referred to in this preamble as 
‘‘AIDS’’), including 1,400,000 children; 
Whereas, in the United States, more than 790,000 people 
with AIDS have died since the beginning of the HIV epi-
demic, including over 19,300 deaths among people with 
VerDate Sep 11 2014 
23:04 Dec 02, 2025
Jkt 069200
PO 00000
Frm 00001
Fmt 6652
Sfmt 6300
E:\BILLS\HR919.IH
HR919
ssavage on LAPJG3WLY3PROD with BILLS
•HRES 919 IH 
diagnosed HIV in 2022, with the disease disproportion-
ately affecting communities of color; 
Whereas, in 2023, over 39,000 people became newly diag-
nosed with HIV in the United States; 
Whereas, according to the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (referred to in this preamble as the ‘‘CDC’’), 
Black Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, 
American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, 
and other Pacific Islanders are disproportionately af-
fected by HIV in the United States; 
Whereas, in order to address the HIV epidemic in the United 
States, on August 18, 1990, Congress enacted the Ryan 
White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency Act 
(Public Law 101–381; 104 Stat. 576) (commonly re-
ferred to as the ‘‘Ryan White CARE Act’’) to provide 
primary medical care and essential support services for 
people living with HIV who are uninsured or under-
insured; 
Whereas the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program provides serv-
ices and support for over half of all people diagnosed with 
HIV in the United States; 
Whereas, to further focus attention on the HIV and AIDS 
epidemic among minority communities in the United 
States, in 1998, the Minority AIDS Initiative was estab-
lished to provide funds to State and local institutions and 
organizations to best serve the needs of racial and ethnic 
minorities living with HIV; 
Whereas, 
since 
2016, 
the 
historic 
U=U 
(Undetectable=Untransmittable) movement has positively 
impacted the lives of people living with HIV by pro-
moting scientific facts; 
VerDate Sep 11 2014 
23:04 Dec 02, 2025
Jkt 069200
PO 00000
Frm 00002
Fmt 6652
Sfmt 6300
E:\BILLS\HR919.IH
HR919
ssavage on LAPJG3WLY3PROD with BILLS
•HRES 919 IH 
Whereas, when people living with HIV are on treatment and 
have an undetectable viral load, they protect their own 
health and cannot transmit HIV; 
Whereas the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 
established a global target to end AIDS as a public 
health threat by 2030; 
Whereas, in order to further address the global HIV and 
AIDS epidemic, in 2003, Congress and the administra-
tion of President George W. Bush, with bipartisan sup-
port, created the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS 
Relief (referred to in this preamble as ‘‘PEPFAR’’); 
Whereas the United States PEPFAR program remains the 
largest commitment in history by any country to combat 
a single disease; 
Whereas 26,000,000 lives have been saved through PEPFAR; 
Whereas, as of September 30, 2024, PEPFAR has supported 
treatment for approximately 20,600,000 people and has 
enabled 7,800,000 infants of mothers living with HIV to 
be born HIV-free; 
Whereas, in fiscal year 2024, PEPFAR directly supported 
testing and counseling for 84,100,000 people; 
Whereas sustained bipartisan commitment is essential for 
PEPFAR to continue saving lives, preventing new HIV 
infections, and accelerating progress toward controlling 
the global HIV and AIDS pandemic; 
Whereas the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and 
Malaria, 
launched 
in 
2002, 
has 
helped 
provide 
antiretroviral therapy to approximately 25,600,000 peo-
ple living with HIV or AIDS and to 648,000 pregnant 
women to prevent the transmission of HIV and AIDS to 
VerDate Sep 11 2014 
23:04 Dec 02, 2025
Jkt 069200
PO 00000
Frm 00003
Fmt 6652
Sfmt 6300
E:\BILLS\HR919.IH
HR919
ssavage on LAPJG3WLY3PROD with BILLS
•HRES 919 IH 
their children and, as of 2025, has saved an estimated 
70,000,000 lives; 
Whereas the United States is the largest donor to the Global 
Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and 
every $1 contributed by the United States leverages an 
additional $2 from other donors, as required by law; 
Whereas considerable progress has been made in the fight 
against HIV and AIDS, including an approximately 40- 
percent reduction in new HIV transmissions, an approxi-
mately 60-percent reduction in new HIV infections 
among children, and a reduction of over 50 percent in the 
number of AIDS-related deaths between 2010 and 2024; 
Whereas approximately 31,600,000 people had access to 
antiretroviral therapy in 2024, compared to only 
7,700,000 people who had access to such therapy in 
2010; 
Whereas research funded by the National Institutes of Health 
found not only that HIV treatment saves the lives of peo-
ple living with HIV, but people living with HIV on effec-
tive antiretroviral therapy and who are durably virally 
suppressed cannot sexually transmit HIV, proving that 
HIV treatment is prevention; 
Whereas the CDC states that preexposure prophylaxis (re-
ferred to in this preamble as ‘‘PrEP’’) reduces HIV 
transmission through sexual contact by 99 percent when 
taken as prescribed, proving that PrEP is critical for 
HIV prevention; 
Whereas, in 2024, approximately 3,900,000 people globally 
used oral PrEP; 
Whereas new, long-acting injectable PrEP options are now 
available; 
VerDate Sep 11 2014 
23:04 Dec 02, 2025
Jkt 069200
PO 00000
Frm 00004
Fmt 6652
Sfmt 6300
E:\BILLS\HR919.IH
HR919
ssavage on LAPJG3WLY3PROD with BILLS
•HRES 919 IH 
Whereas it is estimated that, without treatment, half of all 
infants living with HIV will die before their second birth-
day; 
Whereas, despite the remarkable progress in combating HIV, 
significant challenges remain; 
Whereas, in 2024, there were approximately 1,300,000 new 
HIV diagnoses globally, structural barriers continue to 
make testing and treatment programs inaccessible to 
highly 
vulnerable 
populations, 
and 
an 
estimated 
5,300,000 people living with HIV globally still do not 
know their HIV status; 
Whereas the CDC reports that over 39,000 people were diag-
nosed with HIV in the United States in 2023, and 13 
percent of the 1,200,000 people in the United States liv-
ing with HIV are not aware of their HIV status; 
Whereas the CDC has found that men who have sex with 
men, particularly young Black and Hispanic men, are the 
population disproportionately affected by HIV in the 
United States; 
Whereas Southern States bear the greatest burden of HIV in 
the United States, accounting for 52 percent of all diag-
noses in 2022; 
Whereas transgender feminine individuals are 66 times more 
likely, and transgender masculine individuals are 6.8 
times more likely, to be diagnosed with HIV compared to 
the general adult population; 
Whereas 1 in 2 people living with HIV in the United States 
are over 50; 
Whereas people living with HIV are frequently susceptible to 
other infections, such as hepatitis B and C and tuber-
culosis; 
VerDate Sep 11 2014 
23:04 Dec 02, 2025
Jkt 069200
PO 00000
Frm 00005
Fmt 6652
Sfmt 6300
E:\BILLS\HR919.IH
HR919
ssavage on LAPJG3WLY3PROD with BILLS
•HRES 919 IH 
Whereas the opioid and heroin epidemics have led to in-
creased numbers of new HIV infections among people 
who inject drugs, and the crisis has disproportionately af-
fected nonurban areas, where HIV prevalence rates have 
been low historically and services for HIV prevention and 
treatment and substance use disorder treatment are lim-
ited; 
Whereas December 1 of each year is internationally recog-
nized as ‘‘World AIDS Day’’; 
Whereas 2025 marks the 22nd anniversary of the PEPFAR 
program, an initiative launched by President George W. 
Bush with bipartisan support that has become the pri-
mary policy instrument of the United States to address 
HIV and AIDS globally; and 
Whereas, in 2025, commemorations for World AIDS Day will 
recognize the essential role of community and collective 
action to sustain and accelerate HIV progress in the 
global HIV and AIDS response: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) encourages people around the world to work 
to achieve the goal of 0 new human immuno-
deficiency virus (referred to in this resolution as 
‘‘HIV’’) transmissions, 0 discrimination, and 0 
deaths related to acquired immunodeficiency syn-
drome (referred to in this resolution as ‘‘AIDS’’), in 
order to end the HIV epidemic in the United States 
and around the world by 2030; 
(2) encourages Federal, State, and local govern-
ments, including their public health agencies, and 
VerDate Sep 11 2014 
23:04 Dec 02, 2025
Jkt 069200
PO 00000
Frm 00006
Fmt 6652
Sfmt 6201
E:\BILLS\HR919.IH
HR919
ssavage on LAPJG3WLY3PROD with BILLS
•HRES 919 IH 
community-based organizations to share and dis-
seminate U=U (Undetectable=Untransmittable) in-
formation; 
(3) commends the efforts and achievements in 
combating HIV and AIDS through the Ryan White 
HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act of 2009 (Pub-
lic Law 111–87; 123 Stat. 2885), the Minority HIV/ 
AIDS Initiative, the Housing Opportunities for Per-
sons With AIDS Program, the Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of 
Health, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health 
Services Administration, the Office of Minority 
Health, and the Office of the Secretary of Health 
and Human Services; 
(4) commends the efforts and achievements in 
combating HIV and AIDS made by the President’s 
Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (referred to in this 
resolution as ‘‘PEPFAR’’ ), the Global Fund to 
Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and the 
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS; 
(5) supports continued funding for prevention, 
care, and treatment services and research programs 
for communities impacted by HIV and people living 
with HIV in the United States and globally; 
VerDate Sep 11 2014 
23:04 Dec 02, 2025
Jkt 069200
PO 00000
Frm 00007
Fmt 6652
Sfmt 6201
E:\BILLS\HR919.IH
HR919
ssavage on LAPJG3WLY3PROD with BILLS