XV International AIDS Conference in Bangkok in July, 2004. Interview with Swedish AIDS Ambassador Lennart Hjelmåker. He talks about the global HIV and AIDS situation, about what is being done and what is to be done by communities and governments in the future.

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.