SRES522-119

That the Senate— supports the goals and ideals of World AIDS Day, including the goal to achieve 0 new human immunodeficiency virus (referred to in this resolution as HIV) transmissions, 0 discrimination, and 0 deaths related to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (referred to in this resolution as AIDS); commends the efforts and achievements in combating HIV and AIDS through the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency Act (Public Law 101–381; 104 Stat. 576), the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act of 2009 (Public Law 111–87; 123 Stat. 2885), the Minority HIV/AIDS Initiative, 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; commends the achievements in combating HIV and AIDS made by the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS; supports efforts to end the HIV epidemic in the United States and around the world by 2030; 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; urges, in order to ensure that an AIDS-free generation is achievable, rapid action by all countries toward further expansion and scale-up of testing and antiretroviral treatment programs, including efforts to reduce growing disparities and improve access to life-saving medications for children; encourages the scaling up of comprehensive prevention services, including biomedical and structural interventions, to ensure inclusive access to programs and appropriate protections for all people at risk of contracting HIV, especially in communities disproportionately impacted by the disease; calls for greater focus on HIV-related vulnerabilities of women and girls, including women and girls at risk for, or who have survived, violence or faced discrimination as a result of the disease; supports continued leadership by the United States in domestic, bilateral, multilateral, and private sector efforts to fight HIV; encourages input from civil society in the development and implementation of domestic and global HIV policies and programs that guide the response to the disease; encourages and supports greater degrees of ownership and shared responsibility by developing countries in order to ensure the sustainability of the domestic responses to HIV and AIDS by those countries; and urges other members of the international community to sustain and scale up their support for, and financial contributions to, efforts around the world to combat HIV.