XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City. Closing session with speeches by the Co-chairs Pedro Cahn and Luiz Enrique Soto-Ramírez., as well as the Mayor of Mexico City and the Co-Chairs of the next International AIDS Conference in Vienna in, 2010.

XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City. Michelle Adato and Stuart Gillespie from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) talk about how food security work can help decreasing poverty, prevent HIV and maintain the effect of ARV treatment.

Interview with the Scottish Singer and AIDS activist Annie Lennox in Mexico City. She talks about her activism and the situation of poverty, violence, gender inequality and human rights violations connected with HIV/AIDS.

Interview with the Scottish Singer and AIDS activist Annie Lennox in Mexico City. She talks about her activism and the situation of poverty, violence, gender inequality and human rights violations connected with HIV/AIDS.

XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City. Interviews with Jasmine Burnett from the Black AIDS Institute in the United States, Yvette Fleming from Stop AIDS Now in the Netherlands and David Lush from Positive Vibes in Namibia, among others.

XVI International AIDS Conference in Toronto in August, 2006. Closing session with music performance and presentations of the Mexican representatives of the International AIDS Society. They speak about the 2008 International AIDS Conference in Mexico.

This production was made as the opening film for the IV International AIDS Conference in Stockholm in June 1988. It gives a broad representation of the global AIDS situation in the late 1980's, and has a particular focus on social structures, poverty and stigma.