XIX International AIDS Conference in Washington D.C. Hillary Clinton holds a speech about the political tasks of ending AIDS. Phil Wilson, founder of the Black AIDS Institute, speaks about the challenges of the communities to put an end to the epidemic.

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.