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111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 216 
Supporting the goals and ideals of World AIDS Day. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 1, 2009 
Ms. LEE of California (for herself, Ms. PELOSI, Mr. WAXMAN, Mr. BERMAN, 
Mr. PAYNE, Ms. WATERS, Mrs. CHRISTENSEN, Mr. HIMES, Ms. JACK-
SON-LEE of Texas, Mr. ELLISON, Ms. MCCOLLUM, Ms. BORDALLO, Mr. 
NADLER of New York, Mr. SERRANO, Mr. HINOJOSA, Mr. RUSH, Mr. 
GEORGE MILLER of California, Mr. HARE, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. MOORE 
of Kansas, Mrs. NAPOLITANO, Mr. LEWIS of Georgia, Mr. GRAYSON, Ms. 
SPEIER, Mr. HONDA, Mr. CARSON of Indiana, Ms. BALDWIN, Ms. CAS-
TOR of Florida, Ms. LORETTA SANCHEZ of California, Mr. MARKEY of 
Massachusetts, Mr. HASTINGS of Florida, and Mr. CLEAVER) 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 jurisdic-
tion of the committee 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, about 65,000,000 people have been in-
fected with HIV, and more than 32,000,000 people have 
died of AIDS worldwide; 
Whereas in 2008, UNAIDS estimated that 33,400,000 people 
were living with HIV around the world, over 2,000,000 
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people died of AIDS, and another 2,700,000 people were 
newly infected; 
Whereas 280,000 children under the age of 15 died from 
AIDS in 2008, while 2,100,000 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 only 10 percent of 
pregnant women worldwide receive services to prevent 
HIV transmission to their newborns; 
Whereas new infection rates among women are increasing, 
and now account for 15,700,000 infections and half of 
the adult population living with HIV/AIDS; 
Whereas developing countries continue to bear the brunt of 
the AIDS pandemic with Sub-Saharan Africa serving as 
the home of 67 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 2007 approximately 
1,370,000 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, at the end of 
2006, 1,106,400 people were living with HIV, and 21 
percent did not know they were infected; 
Whereas a total of 583,298 people have died of AIDS in the 
United States from the beginning of the HIV/AIDS epi-
demic through 2007; 
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; 
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Whereas at the end of 2006, African-Americans represented 
46 percent of all people living with HIV in the United 
States, Whites represented 35 percent, Hispanics rep-
resented 18 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 
each year MSM account for 53 percent of all new infec-
tions; 
Whereas men account for roughly 75 percent of all people liv-
ing with HIV in the United States, and women represent 
25 percent; 
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 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 
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