Opening press conference on the ending of AIDS at the XIX International AIDS Conference in Washington D.C. with congress woman Barbara Lee, the Director of IAS Elly Katabira, among others. A demonstration for the rights of sex workers and drug users takes place.

Opening ceremony of the Global Village at the XIX International AIDS Conference in Washington D.C. in 2012. Music performances and speeches by Michel Sidibé from UNAIDS, and others. Global Village is a section with representatives from civil society and HIV organizations.

XIX International AIDS Conference. Session on leadership and health policy with leaders of community networks in Russia and India, and the US governmental program PEPFAR. They answer questions on access to ARV treatment, housing and morphine for pain relief.

Staffan Hildebrand looks back on his 25 years of documenting the HIV and AIDS epidemic for the Face of AIDS Film Archive. The film portrays a shift from pessimism towards a growing optimism in the response to HIV and AIDS.

XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna in 2010. Press conference about the Shapa Boys, an initiative by male bicycle taxi drivers in Malawi, supported by the organization Friends of AIDS Support Trust (FAST), to prevent sex as payment for taxi services.

XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna. Interview with Frank Maluwa who is a member of the Shapa Boys, a group of bicycle taxi drivers in Malawi working with HIV prevention and against payment with sex for taxi services.

XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna. Interview with Tahi Ganyang Butarbutar from Indonesia. He talks about HIV/AIDS activism and fighting stigma.

XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna in 2010. Press conference about the Shapa Boys, an initiative by male bicycle taxi drivers in Malawi, supported by the organization Friends of AIDS Support Trust (FAST), to prevent sex as payment for taxi services.

4th South African AIDS Conference in Durban. Closing session with a speech by South African Minister of Health, Barbara Hogan, about policies and strategies for human rights and HIV prevention interventions. Discovery Health award to scientist in the HIV field.

4th South African AIDS Conference in Durban. Interview with Bright Pirri, Communications Coordinator at Southern African AIDS Trust (SAT). He talks about the role of the conference in mobilizing the community response to HIV and AIDS in southern Africa.

Cutaways from the 4th South African AIDS Conference in Durban in 2009, with a session on male circumcision and a demonstration for human rights and access to antiretroviral treatment.

Panel session at the 4th South African AIDS Conference, discussing youth activism, child advocacy and women's rights in relation to HIV and AIDS. Among the speakers are Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Deputy President of South Africa Baleka Mbeti.