Staffan Hildebrand looks back on his 25 years of documenting the HIV and AIDS epidemic for the Face of AIDS Film Archive. The film portrays a shift from pessimism towards a growing optimism in the response to HIV and AIDS.

XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna in 2010. Interview with Karl Henrik Nanning who is President of the Swedish AIDS support organisation, Noaks Ark. He talks about stigma, where it comes from and how it is prevented.

XVIII International AIDS Conference. Interview about stigma with Pavlo Smyrnov from International HIV/AIDS Alliance in Ukraine.

XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna. Interview with Ruth Morgan Thomas from United Kingdom who works with sex workers rights. Ruth is the Global Coordinator of the organization Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP). She talks about stigma.

XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna. Interview with Jonathan Nzuki from the Kenyan youth organization U-Tena Arts and Education Society. He talks about the U-Tena dance performance group that works with HIV/AIDS awareness.

XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna. Interview with Paula Akugizibwe from AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa (ARASA). She talks about stigma, what it is and how it is created.

XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna. Edwin Sanders from the Tenessee Metropolitan Interdenominational Church (MIC) is interviewed about stigma.

This film is about women from different parts of the world who are active in the HIV activist movement. They discuss gender inequality and the exposed situation of women and girls and explain the educational and empowering work which they are doing in their communities.