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Published online 12 July 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news040712-1
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XV International AIDS Meeting
The biennial international AIDS conference is a scientific gathering, a chance for politicians to network and an activists’ rally all rolled into one. This year, 15,000 people from 160 countries have headed to Bangkok, Thailand, from 11 July to 16 July to discuss the scientific, economic, political and social dimensions of the global AIDS epidemic. Erika Check brings you daily conference news, plus gossip and behind-the-scenes coverage.
This conference had already seen a slew of celebrities this week: Richard Gere, Ashley Judd, and Kofi Annan, for starters. But none of them - indeed, perhaps no one else on earth - can work a crowd like Nelson Mandela.
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