S.Res. 171 — A resolution supporting the goals and ideals of "National Youth HIV/AIDS Awareness Day".

This section expresses the sense of the Senate supporting the goals and ideals of National Youth HIV/AIDS Awareness Day by (1) encouraging state and local governments, public health agencies, education agencies, schools, and media organizations to recognize the day; (2) supporting the rights of young people impacted by HIV/AIDS to education, prevention, treatment, and care without criminalization, discrimination, oppression, or stigma; (3) promoting up-to-date, inclusive, culturally responsible, and medically accurate HIV information—including on pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)—in sex education curricula, as called for in the National HIV/AIDS Strategy; (4) supporting removal of scientifically inaccurate HIV laws that unfairly criminalize young people for consensual behaviors or those with no transmission risk; (5) urging youth-friendly health care services, including access to PrEP, post-exposure prophylaxis, and antiretroviral therapy without parental consent, voluntary routine HIV testing, and early connection to care; (6) supporting increased funding for HIV programs, including CDC's Divisions of Adolescent and School Health, STD Prevention, and HIV Prevention; the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (42 U.S.C. 300ff-11 et seq.), which provides grants to states and localities for HIV care services; Medicaid; AIDS drug assistance programs; and initiatives for medical mentorship, peer navigation, community education on testing and PrEP, and transition to adult HIV care; (7) recommending a comprehensive prevention and treatment strategy to reduce violence, discrimination, and stigma; (8) calling for a generation free of HIV stigma prioritizing youth leadership; and (9) recognizing the negative impacts of legislative restrictions on abortion, birth control, and transgender health care on youth HIV prevention, education, testing, treatment, and criminalization risks.