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.

In this film clip, a man working in the laboratory at St Vincent Hospital in Sydney shows some of the HIV tests and talks about the Australian AIDS situation.

Unknown politician from the Australian government talks about the Australian AIDS situation and the hospitals capacity.

Jonathan Mann, was a US medical doctor and influential within the World Health Organization (WHO). Here he talks about the global understanding of the disease between 1981 and 1988.

Nobel Prize Laureate Luc Montagnier answers questions on the origin of HIV, the spreading of the virus, prevention, and the possibility of a vaccine.