Although African-Americans represent more than half of all new AIDS cases diagnosed in the United States every year, they were virtually invisible among the hundreds of presenters at the 15th International AIDS Conference in Bangkok. Black organisations in the US have complained that whilst there were 5,000 presentations at the conference, only 10 were related to African-Americans. 21,000 are diagnosed with AIDS every year and more than 185,000 are living with AIDS today.