This is the story about Steve Sjöquist - writer, HIV activist and deacon at Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset in Stockholm. Steve was diagnosed with HIV in 1987 and he was one of the first Swedish AIDS patients to get the new antiretroviral therapy in 1996. It saved his life.

XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City. Panel session on comprehensive sex education targeting youth, and on how to integrate sexual and reproductive health and rights in the counseling of young people living with HIV. Chair of session is Lennart Hjelmåker.

Interview with the French doctor Didier Jayle talks about his work informing students in schools about how HIV is spread and how it can be prevented. He is also asked how dealing with AIDS in his work affects his personal life.

Dr Didier Jayle talks about AIDS awareness, the importance of reaching out to young people, and how his work with AIDS patients affects him as a doctor and as a human being.