michael kirby came in and joined it as well. that was quite amazing. it was less clear to me what was supposed to be done. i mean, it was less clear to me after all of the pronouncements -- i mean, the melbourne declaration was great, the criminalization session was great, the appeals were made, kirby's opening address on opening night, but it hasn't yet gelled into a fairly clear set of priority actions that are supposed to happen to address this surge of homophobia and the proliferation of bad laws that we confront. so i put that out. another problem area that emerged was the fact that there were no serious high level asian leaders that showed up. the president of fiji showed up which was nice of him to do and that was great. there were ministers there, there were ministers there, but there was not a surge of -- there was not evidence of a broad gauged, high level political interest. from the asia-pacific region. and i was disappointed to see that. the world bank had a test run, a study of the financing across the asia-pacific. a paper that will be p

michael kirby, led us off with the theme. there were a number of presentations on human rights policy and the law. also some impeer cal data from a special issue of the lancet. this one was on hiv and sex work and sex workers. i would encourage you to read it. i edited that. full disclosure. it's a wonderful group of young investigators who led the papers. really excited about the science. but there's strong human rights evidence there for, for example, the potential benefits of reducing police violence on hiv incidents. modelled outcome and on decriminalization as an hiv prevention approach. finally, in track e, which is the implementation science track now has the largest number of abstract submission. so for those of you who work for implementers out there, you are an enormous sector in this field and doing lots of work. there was great science. some very encouraging outcomes. also one or two warnings. i would just highlight a couple of things. one was, good news that earlier disclosure to adolescents turns out to improve

michael barbaro and jeffrey goldberg, correspondent for "the atlantic" here in washington. let me start first with a statement that the pentagon just made as the pentagon spokesman, the admiral john kirby to this. >> air strikes alone are not going to do this, not going to fix this, not going to save the town of kobani. we know that and we've been saying that over and over again. and yet we continue to get questions of, why aren't you doing more and how come they aren't more effective? we've been honest about the limits of airpower here. the ground forces that matter the most are indigenous ground forces. we don't have a willing, capable, effective partner on the ground inside syria right now. it's just a fact. >> let's talk about that. general barbaro, what do you think? there's nothing the united states can do to save these people in kobe noe? >> i was in erbil last week -- >> that's in northern iraq. >> northern iraq. and they're convinced there will be a massacre in kobani and they're frustrated with the united states because of the diminishing effects of the air strikes, too few, too late. the minister of peshmerga, the kurdish forces, has written to secretary hagel with a list of