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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 in order to de-
velop a National AIDS Strategy to better coordinate and 
guide the Nation’s response to HIV/AIDS; 
Whereas ONAP has since conducted a series of town halls 
across the country to solicit feedback directly from com-
munities impacted by HIV/AIDS in order to provide a 
basis for developing a National AIDS Strategy; 
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 $12,800,000,000 in funding, of 
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which $4,400,000,000 has been donated by the United 
States; 
Whereas as of December 2009, the Global Fund has sup-
ported treatment to over 2,500,000 people for HIV/ 
AIDS, directly observed treatment to 6,000,000 people 
for tuberculosis, and over 104,000,000 insecticide treat-
ed-bednets to fight malaria; 
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, providing $48,000,000,000 
over 5 years to combat the 3 diseases; 
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 3,000,000 people receive antiretroviral treatment; 
Whereas, as of September 30, 2008, PEPFAR had supported 
the treatment of 2,100,000 people and supported the pre-
vention of mother-to-child HIV transmission during more 
than 16,000,000 pregnancies, and had facilitated care for 
nearly 10,100,000 people, including more than 4,000,000 
orphans and vulnerable children; 
Whereas, between 2004 and 2009, Congress provided ap-
proximately $24,752,000,000 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 17 percent since 
2001 and the number of AIDS-related deaths has de-
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clined by 10 percent over the last 5 years, due in part 
to the expansion of HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment 
programs; 
Whereas since the availability of effective HIV/AIDS treat-
ments in 1996 and the increasing availability of treat-
ments to prevent mother to child transmission of HIV 
since 2001, approximately 2,900,000 lives have been 
saved and approximately 200,000 new infections among 
children have been prevented; 
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; 
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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 2009 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 
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 21st 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) 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 
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Treatment Extension Act, the Minority HIV/AIDS 
Initiative, the Centers for Disease Control and Pre-
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; 
(5) supports the development of a national 
AIDS strategy with clear goals and objectives to re-
duce new HIV infections, especially among African- 
Americans, men who have sex with men, and other 
vulnerable communities; 
(6) 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; 
(7) supports the goal of providing universal ac-
cess to comprehensive HIV/AIDS prevention, treat-
ment, care, and support programs; 
(8) 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 
(9) 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. 
Æ 
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