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.