XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City. Interview with Carissa Etienne, Assistant Director-General at WHO and Jim Yong Kim, Professor and since 2012 President of The World Bank. They talk about the leadership of Jonathan Mann and Peter Piot.

XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City. Interview with Carissa Etienne, Assistant Director-General at WHO and Jim Yong Kim, Professor and since 2012 President of The World Bank. They talk about the leadership of Jonathan Mann and Peter Piot.

M.D. Mervyn Silverman is one of the pioneers in the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Here he talks about the shifts of topics on the International AIDS Conferences between 1985 and 2008, about the so called San Francisco Model of AIDS care, and about the closing of the Bathhouses.

4th International AIDS Conference in Stockholm in 1988. Australian Judge Michael Kirby estimates the prevalence of HIV/AIDS and talks about the scientific discoveries so far. He reflects on the moral issues connected with AIDS and talks about stigma and civil rights.