At the UN Wednesday, delegates convened for the first day of a three-day global summit on HIV/AIDS. Hundreds of protesters gathered outside to demand that world leaders listen to people most directly affected by HIV and fulfill commitments to fighting AIDS. The protesters chained themselves in the lobby of the US mission around a large poster that featured a blowup of a letter addressed to Ambassador John Bolton. Police made at least 21 arrests. This is Jeanne Palmer, who took part in the protest.

• Jeanne Palmer:”Everybody here deserves medicine and the funding just like everyone else. if you promised it you need to give it to us. Because we are citizens, and even if we’re not citizens, we are human beings and we deserve to be alive and healthy.”