XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City. Michelle Adato and Stuart Gillespie from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) talk about how food security work can help decreasing poverty, prevent HIV and maintain the effect of ARV treatment.

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.