Why Won?t Obama Attend the AIDS Meeting?

The meeting, now held every other year, does not resemble any other scientific conference. The attendees of AIDS 2012 include scientists, clinicians, political leaders, movie stars, business moguls, HIV-infected people, and representatives from particularly hard-hit communities (gays and transgenders, sex workers, injecting drug users, African Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, Latinos). Among the notable participants this year?theme: ?Turn the Tide Together??are Bill Gates, Whoopi Goldberg, Elton John, Laura Bush, and former President Bill Clinton. A few thousand people from the media typically show up, filling the press room with so many journalists that the profession actually seems alive and well. The proceedings mix presentations of new research findings with a splash of Woodstock, a dollop of heart-wrenching and fiery talks from infected people, and spicy activism that traditionally floods the streets and even the conference sessions themselves with protests.

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