; Whereas in 2015, more than half of African Americans diagnosed with HIV were gay or bisexual men; Whereas in 2015, among all gay and bisexual men who had received an HIV diagnosis, African Americans accounted for the highest number (39 percent); Whereas according to a 2016 study by the CDC, an estimated half of Black gay men will be diagnosed with HIV in their lifetime, if current HIV diagnoses rates persist; Whereas homophobia, stigma, and discrimination pose major obstacles to HIV testing, treatment and other prevention services for gay and bisexual African-American men; Whereas among all women diagnosed with HIV in 2015, 61 percent were African American, despite comprising only 14 percent of the female population in the United States; Whereas African-American women face the highest risk of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) compared with women of other groups; Whereas the HIV diagnosis rate for African-American women remains 16 times as high as that of White women, and almost five times that of Hispanic women; Whereas among African-American women, the leading transmission category of HIV infection is heterosexual contact, followed by intravenous drug use; Whereas research indicates that the high incarceration rates of Black men may contribute to the disproportionate rates of HIV infections among Black women; Whereas in 2010—the most recent data available—there were more than 20,000 inmates with HIV/AIDS in State and Federal prisons, a prevalence that is 4 times the rate of HIV in the general population; Whereas among incarcerated populations, African-American men are 5 times as likely as White men, and twice as likely as Hispanic/Latino men, to be diagnosed with HIV; Whereas among incarcerated populations, African-American women are more than twice as likely to be diagnosed with HIV as White or Hispanic/Latino women; Whereas transgender women in the United States are at high risk for HIV; Whereas half of all transgender people diagnosed with HIV are Black or African American