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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — No one at the high-level United Nations conference devoted to ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030 denies serious scientific and financial challenges remain, but cultural sensitivities may prove the toughest obstacle on the way to achieving that goal. A number of gay and transgender groups were excluded from attending the three-day-long conference that began Wednesday by countries who objected to their presence and nations squabbled over references to topics like gay sex and intravenous drug use in a final statement. General Assembly President Mogens Lykketoft conceded that cultural sensitivities complicated negotiations, which continued until the last minute, but hailed the final result, which calls for countries to reduce the number of new HIV infections to below 500,000 a year by 2020, down from 2.1 million in 2015, among other things.

Cultural sensitivities obstacle at UN AIDS conference