Recognizing the importance of a continued commitment to ending pediatric HIV/AIDS worldwide.

recognizes that the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV is critical to stopping the spread of HIV worldwide;

applauds the United States leadership on efforts to eliminate new pediatric HIV infections and to scale-up pediatric treatment through programs and research;

recognizes that the fight to eliminate pediatric HIV worldwide has been a priority area for the United States in their global AIDS response for more than 13 years and calls on this leadership to continue;

supports providing adolescents and young women with the evidence-based approaches necessary to prevent new HIV infections;

supports providing women and children with HIV counseling and testing services where possible, and scaling up access to services and medicines that prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV and ensure HIV positive mothers survive and thrive;

supports scaling up of treatment for HIV for children and adolescents including greater access to more efficacious antiretroviral drug regimens, age appropriate services, and support for their caregivers; and

recommits the United States to lead the world to the end of AIDS, to eliminate new pediatric HIV infections worldwide, and support women, children, adolescents and families infected and affected by HIV.