4th South African AIDS Conference in Durban. Closing session with a speech by South African Minister of Health, Barbara Hogan, about policies and strategies for human rights and HIV prevention interventions. Discovery Health award to scientist in the HIV field.

4th South African AIDS Conference in Durban in 2009. Panel session on data collection and analysis in epidemiological studies on HIV and AIDS., held by Per Strand from the Swedish organization AIDS Accountability International.

The primary focus of this documentary is on the history of how the AIDS epidemic started in San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York in 1981. Many different stories are told about people affected or surrounded by HIV and AIDS in the early years of the epidemic.

Quarraisha Abdool Karim is an epidemiologist in Durban. She talks about the start of the South African AIDS epidemic and the South African AIDS response, health policies and campaigns. She explains why women are more susceptible to HIV than men are.