It's time to deliver, but will it happen

The symbolic globe has been passed on to the organizers of the Mexico 2008 conference. People have networked and found new friends; a russian comparing notes with Sudanese, a japanese woman exchange contact information with someone from latin america.

People are heading back to their respective countries with new contacts and new ideas on how to fight this global epidemic.

Maybe that's the point to find new ideas and share information with each other. Despite best intentions individual activitist can't force people to change, governments to deliver. If the don't listen to Stephen Lewis, there are not going to listen to me.

But, together with new information and global networks governments will have to listen. They won't have a choice.

The closing of the 16th Annual International AIDS conference was a summary of what was said through out the conference. It is time to deliver, woman, children, MSM, PLWA, and indigenous people need a voice.

Maybe this will be not only the conference with the highest youth presence, the most number of attendees.

Maybe this will be the year governments begin to deilver on promises they have made.