and melissa gira grant, independent journalist, covering the conference for "the nation's crime next,e're headed to indian creek sex workers were banned from attending the conference are holding an alternative conference. stay with us. ♪ [music break] >> "the last song" elton john reed he dedicated this song to ryan wright, the american teenager who became a poster child of hiv/aids in the u.s. after being expelled from middle school because of his infection from a blood transfusion for his hemophilia. ryan white went on to become a spokesperson for aids research and public education. he died in 1990 -- one month before his eyes graduation. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. >> the voices of many of those most affected by the global of a gimmick have been excluded from the conference. u.s. travel restriction bars foreign sex workers and drug users from entering the u.s. unless they can obtain a waiver. while the obama administration as lifted a ban blocking people with hiv from entering the country, the u.s. still