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111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 333 
Supporting the goals and ideals of World AIDS Day. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 1, 2010 
Ms. LEE of California (for herself, Ms. EDWARDS of Maryland, Mr. RUSH, 
Mr. GRIJALVA, Ms. BORDALLO, Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts, Mr. HIN-
CHEY, Ms. NORTON, Ms. SPEIER, Mr. DEUTCH, Mr. STARK, Ms. WOOL-
SEY, Mr. RANGEL, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Ms. BALDWIN, Mr. POLIS 
of Colorado, Ms. MCCOLLUM, Ms. DELAURO, Mr. COHEN, Ms. ROYBAL- 
ALLARD, Mr. SERRANO, Mr. CONYERS, Mr. MEEKS of New York, Mrs. 
CHRISTENSEN, Mr. PAYNE, and Mr. ELLISON) submitted the following 
concurrent resolution; 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 com-
mittee concerned 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Supporting the goals and ideals of World AIDS Day. 
Whereas the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS 
(UNAIDS) estimates that since the identification of 
AIDS in 1981, more than 60,000,000 people have been 
infected with HIV, and nearly 30,000,000 people have 
died of AIDS worldwide; 
Whereas in 2009, UNAIDS estimated that 33,300,000 people 
were living with HIV around the world, 1,800,000 people 
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died of AIDS-related illnesses, and another 2,600,000 
people were newly infected; 
Whereas 260,000 children under the age of 15 died from 
AIDS in 2009, while 2,500,000 children were living with 
HIV, 90 percent of whom reside in Sub-Saharan Africa; 
Whereas each day over 1,000 children under the age of 15 
become newly infected with HIV, and worldwide 53 per-
cent of pregnant women in low and middle income coun-
tries receive services to prevent HIV transmission to their 
newborns; 
Whereas the proportion of women living with HIV has re-
mained stable at slightly less than 52 percent of the glob-
al total; 
Whereas developing countries continue to bear the brunt of 
the AIDS pandemic with Sub-Saharan Africa accounting 
for 68 percent of all adults and children living with HIV, 
60 percent of whom are women and girls; 
Whereas people living with HIV/AIDS are frequently suscep-
tible to other opportunistic infections, and according to 
the World Health Organization, in 2008 approximately 
1,400,000 people living with HIV were also estimated to 
be co-infected with tuberculosis; 
Whereas the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
(CDC) estimates that in the United States, more than 
1,100,000 people are living with HIV, and 21 percent do 
not know they are infected; 
Whereas a total of 597,499 people have died of AIDS in the 
United States from the beginning of the HIV/AIDS epi-
demic through 2007; 
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Whereas each year 56,300 people become newly infected with 
HIV in the United States, and on average, an individual 
is infected with HIV every 91⁄2 minutes; 
Whereas at the end of 2007, African-Americans represented 
48 percent of all people living with HIV in the United 
States, Whites represented 33 percent, Hispanics rep-
resented 17 percent, Asian-Americans and Pacific Island-
ers represented 1 percent, and American Indians and 
Alaska Natives represented less than 1 percent; 
Whereas men who have sex with men (MSM), particularly 
young MSM of color, have represented an increasing 
share of new HIV infections over the past decade and in 
2008 MSM accounted for 54 percent of all new infec-
tions; 
Whereas men account for 73 percent of all people living with 
HIV in the United States, and women represent 27 per-
cent; 
Whereas in the United States, African-American women are 
18 times more likely to become newly infected with HIV 
than White women, and Hispanic women are 5 times 
more likely to have AIDS than non-Hispanic White 
women; 
Whereas 5,259 young people aged 13 to 24 were newly diag-
nosed with HIV/AIDS in 2006, representing about 14 
percent of all new diagnoses in the United States during 
that year; 
Whereas in the United States as of November 2010, approxi-
mately 4,157 people across 9 States have been placed on 
waiting lists to receive AIDS treatment through the 
AIDS Drug Assistance Program authorized through the 
Ryan White CARE Act; 
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Whereas in order to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 
United States, the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment 
Extension Act of 2009 was enacted into law on October 
30, 2009, reauthorizing Federal HIV/AIDS care and 
treatment programs for 4 years and making funding 
available to United States metropolitan areas, States, and 
service providers to assist affected families and persons 
living with HIV/AIDS with healthcare and support serv-
ices; 
Whereas to further focus attention on the HIV/AIDS epi-
demic among minority communities in the United States, 
in 1998, Congress and the Clinton Administration cre-
ated the Minority AIDS Initiative to provide funds to 
State and local institutions and organizations to best 
serve the healthcare costs and support the needs of racial 
and ethnic minorities living with HIV/AIDS; 
Whereas Congress provided $1,400,000 for the Office of Na-
tional AIDS Policy (ONAP) within the White House in 
the FY2009 Omnibus Appropriations Act and the 
FY2010 Omnibus Appropriations Act in order to develop 
a National AIDS Strategy to better coordinate and guide 
the Nation’s response to HIV/AIDS; 
Whereas ONAP conducted a series of town halls across the 
country to solicit feedback directly from communities im-
pacted by HIV/AIDS in order to provide a basis for de-
veloping a National AIDS Strategy; 
Whereas, on July 13, 2010, ONAP released the ‘‘National 
AIDS Strategy for the United States’’ along with an ac-
companying ‘‘Federal Implementation Plan’’ to achieve 
the goals of reducing new HIV infections, increasing ac-
cess to care and improving health outcomes for people liv-
ing with HIV, reducing HIV-related disparities and 
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health inequities, and achieving a more coordinated na-
tional response to the HIV epidemic; 
Whereas, on April 7, 2009, the CDC launched a new commu-
nication campaign, ‘‘Act Against AIDS’’, to facilitate 
awareness, public education, health literacy, health care 
provider marketing, and highly targeted behavior change 
communication objectives in the fight against HIV/AIDS; 
Whereas to address the global HIV/AIDS epidemic, in 2000, 
Congress passed the Global AIDS and Tuberculosis Re-
lief Act, providing the first contribution and the founding 
framework for what became the Global Fund to Fight 
AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, which provides grants 
to developing countries to combat the 3 diseases; 
Whereas since the Global Fund was created in 2002, donors 
have pledged more than $30,000,000,000 in funding, in-
cluding $9,547,000,000 by the United States, of which 
more than $5,130,000,000 has already been donated; 
Whereas as of December 2010, the Global Fund has sup-
ported treatment to over 3,000,000 people for HIV/ 
AIDS, directly observed treatment to 7,700,000 people 
for tuberculosis, and over 160,000,000 insecticide treat-
ed-bednets to fight malaria, saving an estimated 
6,500,000 lives; 
Whereas in order to further address the global HIV/AIDS 
epidemic, in 2008, Congress reauthorized the President’s 
Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) through the 
Tom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde United States Global 
Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Ma-
laria Reauthorization Act, authorizing $48,000,000,000 
over 5 years to combat the 3 diseases; 
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Whereas, between fiscal years 2009 and 2013, PEPFAR pro-
grams aim to support care for 12,000,000 HIV-affected 
people, including children orphaned by AIDS, support the 
prevention of 12,000,000 new HIV infections; and help 
at least 4,000,000 people receive antiretroviral treatment; 
Whereas, as of September 30, 2010, PEPFAR had supported 
the treatment of 3,200,000 people and in FY2010 alone 
supported the prevention of mother-to-child HIV trans-
mission for more than 600,000 HIV-positive pregnant 
women, allowing more than 114,000 infants to be born 
HIV-free, while directly supporting care for 11,000,000 
people, including 3,800,000 orphans and vulnerable chil-
dren; 
Whereas, between 2004 and 2010, Congress provided ap-
proximately $31,385,000,000 to combat global HIV/ 
AIDS through PEPFAR and the Global Fund; 
Whereas as a result of these and other efforts, the rate of 
new HIV infections has declined by 19 percent since 
1999 and the number of AIDS-related deaths has de-
clined by 19 percent between 2004 and 2009, due in part 
to the expansion of HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment 
programs; 
Whereas since the availability of effective HIV/AIDS treat-
ments and the increasing availability of treatments to 
prevent mother to child transmission of HIV, approxi-
mately 
5,200,000 
people 
are 
currently 
receiving 
antiretroviral therapy, an increase of 30 percent since 
2008, and the number of children infected with HIV 
through mother to child transmission has been reduced 
by 24 percent since 2004; 
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Whereas in 2001, representatives and heads of state of 189 
countries, including the United States, convened at the 
first-ever Special Session of the United Nations General 
Assembly on HIV/AIDS and unanimously adopted the 
Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS; 
Whereas the United Nations Declaration of Commitment out-
lines prevention, treatment, and funding methods for 
achieving the Millennium Development Goal of halting 
and beginning to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS by 
2015; 
Whereas in 2006, the United Nations General Assembly con-
vened a High Level Meeting on AIDS, pledging to move 
toward the goal of universal access to comprehensive pre-
vention programs, treatment, care, and support by 2010; 
Whereas in 2008, the United Nations General Assembly con-
vened a second High Level Meeting on AIDS to review 
progress towards achieving the goal of universal access 
and the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS; 
Whereas the concept of World AIDS Day originated at the 
1988 World Summit of Ministers of Health on Pro-
grammes for AIDS Prevention and was established to 
focus attention on the HIV/AIDS pandemic; 
Whereas December 1 is now recognized as World AIDS Day 
and has been taken up by governments, international or-
ganizations, and charities around the world; and 
Whereas the theme of World AIDS Day 2010 is ‘‘Universal 
Access and Human Rights’’ and is intended to focus at-
tention on the goal of providing universal access to HIV/ 
AIDS prevention, treatment, care, and support programs 
and the fundamental need to support and protect human 
rights for all people, particularly vulnerable and 
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marginalized populations, in order to achieve this goal: 
Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That Congress— 
(1) supports the goals and ideals of World 
AIDS Day and recognizes the 22nd anniversary of 
observing this day; 
(2) commends the President, State, and local 
governments, including their public health agencies, 
for recognizing this day, for publicizing its impor-
tance among their communities, and for encouraging 
individuals to undergo testing for HIV; 
(3) commends national, State, and local media 
organizations for carrying messages in support of 
World AIDS Day; 
(4) commends the work of AIDS service organi-
zations and community and faith based organiza-
tions that are providing effective, evidence based, 
prevention, treatment, care, and support services to 
people living with and vulnerable to HIV/AIDS; 
(5) supports continued funding for prevention, 
care, treatment services, and research programs for 
persons living with HIV/AIDS in the United States 
including, through the Ryan White HIV/AIDS 
Treatment Extension Act, the Minority HIV/AIDS 
Initiative, the Centers for Disease Control and Pre-
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vention, the National Institutes of Health, the Sub-
stance Abuse and Mental Health Services Adminis-
tration, the Office of Minority Health, and the Of-
fice of the Secretary of Health and Human Services; 
(6) supports the implementation of the National 
AIDS Strategy and its goals to reduce new HIV in-
fections, increase access to care and improve health 
outcomes for people living with HIV, reduce HIV-re-
lated disparities and health inequities, and achieve a 
more coordinated national response to the HIV epi-
demic; 
(7) supports continued funding for the Presi-
dent’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief and the 
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Ma-
laria to provide prevention, care, and treatment to 
combat HIV/AIDS in developing countries; 
(8) supports the goal of providing universal ac-
cess to comprehensive HIV/AIDS prevention, treat-
ment, care, and support programs; 
(9) supports the goal of protecting human 
rights for all people, including vulnerable and 
marginalized populations such as men who have sex 
with men, injecting drug users, and sex workers; and 
(10) supports efforts to address the factors that 
make populations vulnerable to HIV/AIDS by de-
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creasing poverty and hunger, expanding educational 
opportunities for children, and empowering women. 
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