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.

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.