Dr Ingrid van Beek from the Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Centre (MSIC), a program offering HIV testing, counseling, needle-exchange and methadone programs. She talks about the challenges and successes of the Australian AIDS response.

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.