Whereas approximately 1/2 of the 36,700,000 people living with human immunodeficiency virus (commonly known as HIV ) worldwide are women; Whereas approximately 1,000 adolescent girls and young women worldwide are infected with HIV each day; Whereas 22 percent of new HIV infections worldwide in 2016 were in young women between 15 and 24 years of age; Whereas 120,000 children worldwide died in 2016 of causes related to acquired immune deficiency syndrome (commonly known as AIDS ); Whereas AIDS is a leading cause of death among adolescents globally; Whereas young girls who experience violence are 3 times more likely to be infected with HIV, and a survey of 11 countries found that 1 in 3 women reported their first sexual experience as forced or coerced; Whereas girls account for 74 percent of new HIV infections among adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa; Whereas 1 in 4 people living with HIV in the United States is a female who is 13 years of age or older; Whereas approximately 226,000 women live with HIV in the United States; Whereas 20 percent of the AIDS diagnoses in the United States, from the beginning of the epidemic through the end of 2015, were among women; Whereas HIV affects all demographics of women, however, African-American women are disproportionately affected; Whereas African-American women made up more than 61 percent of new HIV infections in 2015, while only accounting for 14 percent of the female population in the United States; Whereas 1/2 of the women living with HIV in the United States are receiving care; Whereas only 4 in 10 HIV infected women in the United States have reached viral suppression; Whereas the annual number of HIV infections through perinatal transmission in the United States has declined by over 90 percent since the early 1990s; Whereas, when a woman living with HIV receives comprehensive care before, during, and after a pregnancy, the risk of passing HIV to their child reduces to less than 1 percent