Whereas, since the identification of AIDS in 1981, an estimated 74,900,000 people have been infected with HIV, and more than 32,000,000 people have died of AIDS and AIDS-related illnesses worldwide; Whereas, in 2018, an estimated 1,700,000 people were newly infected with HIV, 23,300,000, people living with HIV (61 percent of the total) had access to antiretroviral (ART) therapy, and 1,000,000 people died of the disease; Whereas worldwide, 37,900,000 people are living with HIV, only 79 percent of whom know their status; Whereas, since 2010, new HIV infections have declined by an estimated 16 percent, from 2.1 million to 1.7 million in 2018; Whereas progress has been made globally in reducing mother-to-child transmission of HIV, with new transmissions among children declining 41 percent since 2010; Whereas girls and women make up more than half of the 37.9 million people living with HIV worldwide; Whereas young women and adolescent girls bear a disproportionate burden of HIV worldwide (18,800,000); Whereas AIDS-related opportunistic infections are the third-leading cause of death among women aged 15 to 29 globally; Whereas AIDS-related opportunistic infections remain the leading cause of death among women aged 15 to 49 globally; Whereas low-income and middle-income countries continue to bear the brunt of the AIDS pandemic, with sub-Saharan Africa serving as the home of 54 percent of all adults and children living with HIV, 56 percent of whom are women and girls; Whereas people living with HIV/AIDS are frequently susceptible to other infections, such as hepatitis C and tuberculosis (TB); Whereas at least one-third of those living with HIV are infected with latent tuberculosis, which remains the leading cause of death among people living with HIV; Whereas the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that in the United States, 1,100,000 people are living with HIV and 14 percent of those are not aware of their status