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4th International AIDS Conference in Stockholm in 1988. Australian Judge Michael Kirby talks about the estimations of the global spread of HIV/AIDS and the scientific discoveries so far. He reflects on the moral issues connected with HIV/AIDS and talks about stigma and civil rights. He stresses that information must be widely disseminated, both in order to prevent the disease and the prejudices against people living with HIV/AIDS. He also talks about a friend of his who died of AIDS, and reads an extract of a Dag Hammarskjöld poem. This speech is from the 4th International AIDS Conference in Stockholm in 1988. It also includes a music performance.