; Whereas in the United States, more than 700,000 people with AIDS have died since the beginning of the epidemic, including nearly 13,000 in 2014; Whereas each year nearly 40,000 people become newly diagnosed with HIV in the United States; Whereas minority communities 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 represent 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 at the end of 2014, an estimated 60 percent were African American, 17 percent were White, and 17 percent were Hispanic or Latina; Whereas, in 2015, youth aged 13 to 24 accounted for more than 20 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, are the population most affected by HIV; Whereas, in 2015, MSM accounted for 82 percent of new diagnoses among men and 67 percent of all new infections; Whereas the national opioid epidemic is a threat to a resurgence of HIV cases among people who inject drugs (PWID), with an estimated 10 percent of new cases attributable to injection drug use; Whereas Southern States bear the greatest burden of HIV in the United States, accounting for half of new infections in 2014; Whereas in order to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States, on August 18, 1990, Congress enacted the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act to provide primary medical care and essential support services for people living with HIV who are uninsured or underinsured