Whereas National Youth HIV/AIDS Awareness Day is a nationwide observance that calls on people to take action to invest in the health, education, and leadership of young people; Whereas, more than 40 years into the epidemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that in the United States more than 1,189,700 people are living with HIV, and 30,635 people were diagnosed with HIV in the United States in 2020; Whereas, in 2020, youth aged 13 to 24 years composed 20 percent of all new HIV diagnoses in the United States; Whereas young people living with HIV are the least likely of any age group to be retained in care and have a suppressed viral load; Whereas 56 percent of young people living with HIV ages 13 to 24 are unaware of their HIV status; Whereas African-American youth are most impacted by the epidemic, representing 54 percent of new transmissions in young people ages 13 to 24; Whereas young African-American gay and bisexual men are even more severely affected, representing 53 percent (2,740) of new HIV diagnoses among young gay and bisexual men; Whereas young gay and bisexual men accounted for 84 percent (5,161) of all new HIV diagnoses in people aged 13 to 24 in 2020; Whereas the National HIV/AIDS Strategy expands the fact that youth experience worse HIV outcomes on status awareness, pre-exposure prophylaxis uptake, and health outcomes; Whereas the National HIV/AIDS Strategy recommends children and young adults with HIV need tailored and often more intensive medical and support services to support them as they grow and become young adults; Whereas the Division of Adolescent and School Health is the only Federal program supporting HIV prevention for adolescents in schools; Whereas the Nation’s largest Federal program dedicated to providing care and treatment for people living with HIV was named after Ryan White, a teenager from Indiana who helped educate a Nation about HIV and AIDS in the 1980s