XIX International AIDS Conference. Session on Pediatrics with medical doctors and scientists discussing prevention of mother-to-child transmission and the development of antiretroviral treatments suitable for infants and small children.

XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City. Jeffrey Sturchio, Vice President of Merck & Co, talks about the development of protease inhibitors in 1996 and the relationship between the activists and the drug industry.

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.

XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City. Jeffrey Sturchio, Vice President of Merck & Co, talks about the development of protease inhibitors in 1996 and the relationship between the activists and the drug industry.

XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City. Alexander Flett from Art For Humanity, talks about how art can change the HIV/AIDS epidemic and increase people's, especially children's, knowledge about human rights.

XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City. Cutaways of panel discussions with Annie Lennox and members of Oxfam International, among others, on global health policy and how the HIV/AIDS situation affects African communities.

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.