Dr James Curran, mostly known for his work at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the 1980's, pinpoints several key events and persons linked with the very first years of discoveries on HIV and AIDS.

Two interviews with Martin Delaney from 1994 and 1998, where he explains the work and aims of Project Informs. Shots from the Project Inform Hotline.

The Journalist David Perlman from San Francisco Chronicle was the first American journalist to report on AIDS in June 1981. He tells the story of his first article on AIDS, and how reporting on the epidemic affected him.

Diane Johns is a nurse at San Francisco General Hospital. She shares her thoughts on terminal care, patient participation, home based care, and homelessness. Diane started to work at San Francisco General Hospital in 1982 and began at the newly opened AIDS ward in 1983.

XIX International AIDS Conference in Washington D.C. Congresswoman Barbara Lee comments on the United States travel restrictions against people living with HIV that was resolved in 2012 after 22 years. She also reflects on the possibilities of ending AIDS.

XIX International AIDS Conference. Interview with Michel Kazatzhkine who is the United Nations HIV Special Representative for Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Here he talks about harm reduction policies and the situation for people who are using drugs.

International AIDS Conference in Washington D.C. Interview with Elly Katabira, Co-chair of AIDS 2012, President of IAS and working at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. He comments on ending AIDS, on leadership in the AIDS response and the role of IAS.

XIX International AIDS Conference. Interview with Adeeba Kamarulzaman from the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She talks about the obstacles and possibilities of ending HIV and AIDS.

XIX International AIDS Conference in Washington D.C. Gottfried Hirnshall is Director of Department of HIV and Global Hepatitis Programme at the WHO. Here he talks about what needs to be done from a health policy perspective to end AIDS, and the role of WHO.

XIX International AIDS Conference in Washington D.C. Barton Haynes from the Duke Human Vaccine Institute (DHVI) has been working in the HIV vaccine field since 1985. Here he talks about the scientific difficulties of finding an HIV vaccine.

XIX International AIDS Conference. The co-chair of this conference, Diane Havlir, has been working with HIV/AIDS since the early 80's at San Francisco General Hospital. Here she talks about the time of the outbreak and about the tools needed to end HIV and AIDS.

Dr Anthony Fauci from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) gives his thoughts on the future of the AIDS epidemic. He also talks about the targets of the current and future HIV/AIDS research and about international partnerships in the AIDS response.