Whereas the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that in the United States, more than 1,189,000 people are living with HIV, and 13 percent do not know their status; Whereas in the United States, more than 700,000 people with AIDS have died since the beginning of the epidemic, including more than 290,000 African Americans; Whereas, in 2020, 30,635 people aged 13 and older become newly diagnosed with HIV in the United States; Whereas since the beginning of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States, racial and ethnic minorities have been disproportionately affected by the disease; Whereas African Americans are diagnosed with HIV later than their White counterparts, are confronted with greater barriers in accessing care and treatment, and face higher morbidity and mortality outcomes; Whereas African Americans account for nearly half of all those with AIDS who have died in the United States since the beginning of the epidemic; Whereas, in 2017, 2,620 African Americans died of HIV or AIDS, accounting for 47 percent of total deaths attributed to the disease that year; Whereas, in 2014, HIV/AIDS was the sixth-leading cause of death for Black men overall and for Black women ages 25 to 34, and the fifth for Black men ages 35 to 44 and fourth for Black women ages 35 to 44, ranking higher than their respective counterparts in any other racial or ethnic group; Whereas, in 2019, African Americans represented 42 percent of all people living with HIV in the United States, despite comprising just 13 percent of the United States population; Whereas, in 2020, over 12,800 African Americans were diagnosed with HIV; Whereas, from 2015 to 2019, HIV diagnoses for African Americans decreased by 8 percent; Whereas African-American gay and bisexual men are more affected by HIV than any other group in the United States, accounting for a higher proportion of HIV diagnoses, those living with HIV, those ever diagnosed with AIDS, and HIV/AIDS-related deaths