Supporting the goals and ideals of National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day.
H. Res. 210 is a non-binding House Resolution introduced on March 10, 2025, to publicly support National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day and to reaffirm congressional commitment to addressing HIV/AIDS with a focus on women and girls. While it does not authorize new spending or create enforceable programs, it outlines bipartisan goals and policy directions. The resolution cites domestic and global HIV/AIDS data, highlights the disproportionate impact on women—especially women of color—and calls for sustained U.S. investment in prevention, care, treatment, and research, as well as protections and education that address gender-based violence, discrimination, and access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health information and services. The resolution urges continued domestic and international efforts to reduce new infections, expand access to care and medications (including PrEP and antiretroviral therapy), and promote youth-friendly, culturally responsive health care. It also supports incorporating up-to-date HIV information into sex education curricula and maintaining global diplomacy and foreign assistance programs aimed at reducing gender-based disparities that drive the epidemic.
Key Points
- 1Recognizes HIV/AIDS as a continuing public health issue in the U.S. and globally, with particular emphasis on the impact on women and girls, including women of color.
- 2Reiterates commitment to bipartisan efforts to end the HIV epidemic in the United States and around the world.
- 3Calls for strong, sustained investment in HIV prevention, care, treatment, and research, with a focus on reducing disparities and improving access to lifesaving medications for women and girls.
- 4Encourages policies and programs in the United States to reduce new infections, improve health outcomes for women and girls living with HIV, and connect people to timely, appropriate care (including access to PrEP and antiretroviral therapy).
- 5Supports global efforts to dramatically reduce new HIV infections among women and girls through evidence-based, multisectoral approaches, and advocates for foreign assistance that addresses violence against women, discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, and barriers to sexual and reproductive health services.
- 6Promotes access to current, inclusive, culturally responsive, and medically accurate HIV information—especially in sexual education curricula—covering prevention tools like pre- and post-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP/PEP) and related health services.