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.

4th South African AIDS Conference in Durban in 2009. Interview with Broadway Actress Sheryl Lee Ralph, Founder and Ceo of the DIVA Foundation. Here she talks about human rights and the stigma towards men who have sex with men and people living with HIV/AIDS.

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.

The 21 years old Botswanan hip hop artist Oracle talks about social stigma, parent-child relations regarding AIDS, how to influence the young people in Botswana, the possibility of changing sexual behavior, and his thoughts on the origin of HIV/AIDS.

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.