Cutaways from a demonstration against homophobia, stigma and discrimination during the International AIDS Conference in Mexico City in 2008. March and speakers.

M.D. Mervyn Silverman is one of the pioneers in the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Here he talks about the shifts of topics on the International AIDS Conferences between 1985 and 2008, about the so called San Francisco Model of AIDS care, and about the closing of the Bathhouses.

Cutaways from a demonstration against homophobia in Mexico City in connection with the International AIDS Conference. Interviews with Swedish HIV/AIDS activist Jan Nola Morfeldt among others.

Cutaways from a demonstration against homophobia in Mexico City during the time of the International AIDS Conference.

This film tells the US story of the AIDS epidemic starting in the early 1980's. Scientists and activists, both pioneers and youths of today, talk about research, prevention, treatment and care. They also discuss stigma, homophobia and poverty as closely related to HIV and AIDS.

Interview with Daniel Tarantola, Professor of Health and Human Rights at University of New South Wales in Sydney. He tells about his work in expanding health care services in several African countries, starting in the early 1970's and the time when he entered the HIV field.

Young AIDS activist Ricardo Baruch talks about the international collaboration of youth activists and the AIDS situation in Mexico for LBGT persons and women in rural areas and developing countries. He also reflects on the International AIDS Conference.

Mr Subbarao is secretary of state for health in the Tamil Nadu Government in Chennai. In this interview he talks about the educational and medical work lead by the government. He talks particularly about empowering and educate women about HIV prevention.

This film is about women from different parts of the world who are active in the HIV activist movement. They discuss gender inequality and the exposed situation of women and girls and explain the educational and empowering work which they are doing in their communities.

In the last part of the interview with Dr Anthony Fauci he reflects on the global HIV/AIDS situation and response. He also compares AIDS to other diseases such as the Bird Flu, and discusses the specific social and socioeconomic factors of HIV/AIDS.

XVI International AIDS Conference in Toronto in August, 2006. Closing session with music performance and presentations of the Mexican representatives of the International AIDS Society. They speak about the 2008 International AIDS Conference in Mexico.

This is the third part of the interview with Dr Anthony Fauci. Here he talks about the American AIDS movement in the early 80's with activists such as the writer Larry Kramer in the frontline, and the time when he invited the leading activists up to his office.