Nicole, a teenage girl living in San Francisco, is interviewed about the voluntary work she has done in the Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco.

XIX International AIDS Conference. Panel discussion on youth HIV/AIDS activism focusing on stigma and discrimination, internet and social media in the HIV/AIDS response and how to influence political leaders and older generations to take action.

XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City. Interview with Paul Bekkers who is the AIDS Ambassador for the Netherlands. He talks about national leadership in the global response to HIV and AIDS, about youth and sexuality education.

Students are interviewed on the street in Washington DC, about HIV/AIDS and prevention.

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.