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Whereas more than 698,000 people have died of AIDS in the 
United States from the beginning of the HIV/AIDS epi-
demic, including more than 13,000 in 2013; 
Whereas each year nearly 50,000 people become newly in-
fected with HIV in the United States; 
Whereas women of color are disproportionately affected by 
HIV in the United States; 
Whereas the CDC estimates that African-Americans account 
for almost half (45 percent) of all new infections and rep-
resent more than one-third of all people living with HIV 
in the United States, despite comprising just 12 percent 
of the population; 
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 among all women diagnosed with HIV in 2014, an 
estimated 62 percent were African-American, 18 percent 
were White, and 16 percent were Hispanic or Latina; 
Whereas in 2014, youth aged 13 to 24 accounted for more 
than 22 percent of all new HIV diagnoses in the United 
States, with nearly half of youth aged 18 to 24 unaware 
of their status; 
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 78 percent of new infections 
among men and 63 percent of all new infections; 
Whereas the national opioid epidemic is a threat to a resur-
gence of HIV cases among people who inject drugs 
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(PWID), with an estimated ten percent of new cases at-
tributable to injection drug use; 
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 the Office of National AIDS Policy (ONAP) re-
leased an update of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy 
targeting reducing new infections, increasing access to 
care, reducing disparities, and achieving a more coordi-
nated response by 2020; 
Whereas in 2003 with bi-partisan leadership from President 
Bush, Congress created the President’s Emergency Plan 
for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the largest commitment in 
history by a country to combat a single disease; 
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 
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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 $33,000,000,000 in funding, of 
which $10,687,341,803 has been donated by the United 
States; 
Whereas as of December 2015, the Global Fund has sup-
ported treatment to over 8,000,000 people for HIV/ 
AIDS, directly observed treatment to 13,200,000 people 
for tuberculosis, and over 548,000,000 insecticide treated 
nets to fight malaria; 
Whereas in order to further address the global HIV/AIDS 
epidemic, in 2013, Congress extended the President’s 
Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) through 
2018 with the PEPFAR Stewardship and Oversight Act 
of 2013 to continue to address HIV, tuberculosis, and 
malaria; 
Whereas, as of September 30, 2015, PEPFAR had supported 
life-saving treatment for 9,500,000 men, women, and 
children and in FY2015 supported the prevention of 
mother-to-child HIV transmission during 14,700,000 
pregnancies, and had facilitated care for more than 
5,500,000 orphans and vulnerable children; 
Whereas as a result of these and other efforts, the rate of 
new infections among children in the 21 countries in sub- 
Saharan Africa that have been most impacted by the epi-
demic has declined by 60 percent since 2009, due in part 
to the expansion of HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment 
programs; 
Whereas in September 2015, the world adopted the 2030 
Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable 
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Development Goals and the global community collectively 
committed to a goal of ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic 
by 2030; 
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 recognized by governments, international 
organizations, and charities around the world; and 
Whereas World AIDS Day 2016 is focused on ending AIDS 
by the year 2030 and to fast track the end of the AIDS 
epidemic by providing universal access to HIV/AIDS pre-
vention, 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 28th 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; 
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(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 
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 implementation of the National 
HIV/AIDS Strategy for the United States: Updated 
to 2020 (NHAS) and achieving the goals within the 
NHAS Federal Action Plan; 
(6) supports continued funding for PEPFAR 
and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, 
and Malaria to provide prevention, care, and treat-
ment to combat HIV/AIDS in low-income and mid-
dle-income countries; 
(7) supports the goal of providing universal ac-
cess to comprehensive HIV/AIDS prevention, treat-
ment, care, and support programs; 
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