dazon dixon diallo, welcome to "democracy now!"washington, d.c., where you are attending the conference bridge to ellis the message you are bringing from the south. one-third of the country's population is in the south, but more than half of the new hiv /aids infections are occurring in the south of the united states. >> absolutely. it is such a pleasure to be with you. thank you. my organization sisterlove, we arrived at the international aids congress with a delegation of about 15 women, half of whom are living with hiv both from the u.s. and south africa of. there are three things we framed our purpose for coming to this conference. one, in its international meeting in the last 22 years that it has not been held here in the u.s., women of color, poor people, people of color in general affected by hiv in the u.s. have been virtually invisible because we don't get to travel and attend a lot of these conferences in large numbers enough to represent the situation going on in the u.s., particularly in the south. the second reason is