The backstory to AIDS 2014

Demonstration at the satellite session on treatment at the AIDS 2014 Conference in Melbourne, Australia, 20 July 2014.

UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé.

A member of the audience takes a photos of Jan Beagle, Deputy Executive Director, UNAIDS talking at Meet the Leaders: UN Leaders Meet Communities during the AIDS 2014 Conference. Melbourne, 22 July 2014.

A pillow in the AIDS 2014 Conference calls for decriminalizing sex work.

Benjamin Lord at the Transcendents exhibition at the AIDS 2014 conference at the Melbourne Convention Centre in Melbourne on 20 July 2014.

Behind the scenes of the AIDS 2014 conference at the Melbourne Convention Centre.

Robert Doyle, Lord Mayor of Melbourne, wearing red socks in solidarity with the AIDS response.

Adolescents aged 10–19 are among the people most neglected by the HIV response, yet AIDS is the second biggest contributor to adolescent death globally and the main contributor in sub-Saharan Africa. Credit: UNAIDS/M.Fairclough

Behind the scenes of the AIDS 2014 conference at the Melbourne Convention Centre,

Behind the scenes of the AIDS 2014 conference at the Melbourne Convention Centre.

Melbourne Convention Centre. 23 July 2014.

Melbourne Convention Centre. 23 July 2014.

Melbourne Convention Centre. 23 July 2014.

Melbourne Convention Centre. 23 July 2014.

Melbourne Convention Centre. 23 July 2014.

Melbourne Convention Centre. 23 July 2014.

Opening ceremony of the AIDS 2014 conference in Melbourne, Australia, 20 July 2014.