XVI International AIDS Conference in Toronto. Panel discussion on women and AIDS with Melinda Gates, Businesswoman Sheila Johnson, UN Special Envoy Nafis Sadik, and the South African AIDS activist Musa Njoko. Chair of the session is the Journalist Judy Woodruff.

Quarraisha Abdool Karim is an epidemiologist in Durban. She talks about the start of the South African AIDS epidemic and the South African AIDS response, health policies and campaigns. She explains why women are more susceptible to HIV than men are.