The Global AIDS Epidemic

For nearly 40 years, the AIDS epidemic has gripped the world — and it's still killing around a million people a year.

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00:00I just have to tell you that I'm HIV positive.

00:30The human side of seeing young people dying in front of you, it's very hard to live.

00:53Of course, the hardest thing to live is for people who live with the virus themselves.

00:58But by chance, we felt it too, the researchers and of course the healthcare staff.

01:05It was a dramatic period, really dramatic.

01:58Am I being fired?

02:27I don't know.

02:51We didn't even anticipate our future.

03:04I never saw myself as old.

03:06I don't even know what that meant.

03:36As a global leader in combating HIV AIDS, we need to act like it.

04:06I don't know what that meant.

04:35I don't know.