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Discusses how science in Africa has demonstrated that HIV causes AIDS as of July 2000. Overview on the discovery of its patients with HIV; Views on the scope of the epidemic of AIDS. INSET: Testing the Test.

Reports on the treatment of AIDS patients in Uganda, Africa. Percentage of adults infected with the disease; Cost of putting all of Africa's AIDS patients into treatment; Health and social conditions of AIDS victims in the country; Comparison between Western doctors and healers. INSET: Of Patients and Pills.

Deals with the protests of AIDS activists in South Africa to urge their government to act on the control of the AIDS virus. Blunders made by the administration of President Nelson Mandela; Racial and economic implications of the Apartheid system; Activities of the organization Treatment Action Group.

Focuses on the possible role of African prostitutes in developing an HIV vaccine. Basis of the notion; Problems with other methods against AIDS; Mechanism of HIV virus.

Examines the theory that AIDS originated in African chimpanzees. Evidence of its origin; Protests of Africans on its origin; How HIV virus may have passed from animals to humans.

Discusses the AIDS prevention efforts in Zimbabwe. Criticism of the government's response to AIDS; Contribution of the Insiza Godlwayo AIDS Council to the fight against AIDS; Remarks from Alan Whiteside of the University of Natal.

Features Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, a musician in Lagos, Nigeria. Purpose of his commune Kalakuta Republic; Career background of Anikulapo-Kuti; Opinion on his music; Implications of his commune's lifestyle on the spread of HIV.

Reports on the rapid increase of HIV in South Africa and its mining communities. Sex trade in the mines; Miners in East Drefontein gold mine who are HIV-positive; Comments from doctors.

Provides information on Relenza, a drug for the treatment of viral infections such as flu developed by Glaxo Wellcome. Clinical testing conducted on the drug; Application for the drug's approval by the United States Food and Drug Administration; Importance of molecular biology in developing drugs for viral infections.

Focuses on the psycho-sexual theories of psychotherapist Sigmund Freud. Information on the exhibition `Sigmund Freud: Conflict and Culture,' at the Library of Congress in New York; Contentions of Freud's critics; Discussion on the controversy about Prozac, a drug for treating psychological problems.

Presents a model for AIDS treatment activism. HIV Treatment Data Project (TDP) by author-activist Larry Kramer; Debate over the reliability of information provided by TDP; Web site by Lotus company designed for HIV victims.

Focuses on the 1998 World AIDS Conference in Geneva, Switzerland. Findings on the severe effect of HIV; System that can help control HIV virus; Treatment of the disease. INSET: The treatment gap.

Focuses on the ongoing debate over whether to report the names of all people who is tested as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive to United States health department. Comments from pro-HIV advocates; Implications of the proposed name reporting; Roles of government officials on the name reporting issue. INSET: Partner notification: The other debate.

Focuses on the concerns in gene manipulation. Narration of examples on how genetic tests and knowledge affect man's life; Discussion about the perfect-child syndrome and cloning; Use of human cloning to increase the number of organ donors.

Part VI. Reports on the research regarding the scientists' use of genes to attack everything from cancer to aging. Details on the research conducted by Jeffrey Isner, chief of vascular medicine at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Boston; Effect of Isner's experiment in Damian Ivanof's ailment; Significance of Deoxy Ribonucleic Acid; Gene therapy trials in the United States. INSET: The drug pharm.

Discusses deoxyribose nucleic acid (DNA) testing as evidence in criminal cases. Role of DNA in freeing Kevin Lee Green from jail; United States government criminal DNA data banks; Bias on the use of DNA in criminal courts. INSETS: No appeal.;The finger of god?..

Part III. Focuses on the role of genetics in tracing ancestral origins. How the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) can settle questions on human history; Examples of tracing history using DNA; Comments of Fatimah Jackson, University of Maryland anthropology and biology professor on the implications of genealogy; Significance of mitochondrial DNA. INSET: Roots, DNA style..

Part I. States that in the early next century, researchers will present a complete blueprint of human DNA and along with it a multitude of potential ethical, legal and cultural crises. Bill being debated by the Congress that would forbid employers and health insurers from discriminating based on genetic information; Issues that merely touch the surface of what will arise as genetic manipulation; Fundamental concept of genetics.

Provides information on the notion of scientists that homosexuality can be genetically altered. Techniques done by scientists to alter sex; Brief account on the works done by Simon LeVay, Ronald M. Green and Dean Hamer; Findings on the genes involved in sexual orientation; Limitations on the research on sexual orientation.

Reports on the spread of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in New York. How HIV-negative people are getting infected; Consequences due to the reinfection of HIV-positive individuals; Identified major subtypes of HIV; Terminologies and meanings used by researchers; Comments made by Carlos Maldonado of the Latino Commission on AIDS; More information. INSET: The needle nightmare..

Discusses the chances of getting HIV through fellatio. Number of HIV cases resulting from oral sex; Comment that `oral transmission of HIV may occur more often than previously recognized'; Findings that homosexual men were having unprotected oral and anal sex; Information on studies on the transmission of HIV through oral or anal sex. INSET: Wht the stats don't show..

Highlights the 11th International Conference on AIDS in Vancouver in July 1996. Number of HIV drugs to be unveiled during the conference; Subjects to be discussed; Expected level of attendance. INSET: What they don't know can hurt you, by Mark Schoofs..

Focuses on the efforts to develop a vaccine for the AIDS virus. Spending for vaccine development; Belief of researchers that a vaccine can be made; Problems with HIV; Lack of an ideal animal model; Existence of people who are resistant to the virus; Efforts of drug companies; Strict standards for vaccines. INSET: Not our job, by M.S..

Features six New York residents with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and how they would be adversely affected by proposed spending cuts in medical welfare. Marlene and Margaretha Diaz; Kenneth Williams; John DeFazio; Nadine Hunter; Louise and Kristen Rivera; Idell Gillard.

Relates several stories of homosexual couples with one partner having an HIV virus. Abandonment among `sero-discordant' couples; Pressures on the couples' relationships; Safe sex.

Focuses on the conference on AIDS disease held in South Africa. Discussion on the problems afflicting people with AIDS in developing countries; Efforts to save the lives of people with AIDS; Comments from people who are afflicted by the disease; Drugs needed by AIDS patients.

Focuses on HIV-positive women in Africa. Study on AIDS cases in Uganda; Information on the Society of Women Against AIDS; Efforts to convince men to take responsibility on the education of AIDS.

Presents information on the Homosexuals Anonymous and Desert Stream, a fundamentalist ministry that offers intense program to convert homosexuals into heterosexuals. Reason of some people for trying not to be gay; Why the movement to heal gays has suddenly gained media credibility; Challenges faced by gays in transforming.

Focuses on the results of a study conducted by researchers at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota on the genetic engineering method used to cure flawed genes. Methodology used in the study; Insights of several gene therapists on the results; Significance of the results; Background information about the human genetic code.

Part II. Presents the results of scientific studies on genes. Human genes which are common to other forms of animal life; Significance of the Cambrian explosion on the genetics of insects and animals; Neutral theory of evolution by Motoo Kimura.

Presents information on ACT UP, an AIDS activists' movement. How the movement was founded by Larry Kramer; Goal of the organization; How the organization achieved the goal; Reasons ACT UP came into existence; Comments of Julian Bond on the organization; What makes ACT UP a memorable and effective activist group; Achievements of the organization.

Comments on the return of the world's largest quilt that was specially designed to commemorate persons who succumbed to the AIDS virus to Washington. Number of persons' names found on the quilt; Critics' complaint that the quilt is too sentimental; Description of the quilt; Efforts of health officials to educate persons about the disease. INSET: What's in a quilt?.; The other memorial..

Focuses on an AIDS trial in New York City that tries to eliminate HIV through aggressive treatment. Administration of three powerful drugs that target HIV; Conduct of trial by Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center led by David Ho and Martin Markowitz; Reasons for conducting the trial.

Focuses on the efforts by the New York City government to regulate pornography in the city. Creation of new zoning regulations limiting pornographic businesses; Comment by Andrew Lynn, department of city planning executive director; Features of the zoning regulations; Public reaction to the proposal.

Focuses on how gay couples in the United States weigh the risk of unprotected sex against prevention from mutual HIV reinfection. Difference of attitude towards having sex with a lover from that with a casual partner; Effects of communication between partners about emotional subjects; Campaigns on how to responsibly forgo condoms; Issue on being monogamous. INSET: What's safe? The GMHC line (safe sex for gay men)..

Reports the move of Pfizer company to donate the drug fluconazole drug to South Africa to help treat patients with AIDS. Number of people afflicted with AIDS in South Africa; Reason for the move of Pfizer to donate the drug to South African government; Price of the drug in South Africa; Monopoly of Pfizer on the price of the drug.

Discusses the ancient DNA discovered by scientists in !Kung San people of southern Africa. Agreement among scientists that first humans appeared in Africa and dispersed around the world; How the scientists discovered the genetic fragments that link the !Kung San people to ancient humans; Claim of the !Kung San people that they are the first people on earth; Implication of the discovery to Africa and its people.

Deals with the legal battle of the South African government against Pfizer pharmaceutical company over the monopoly of fluconazole drug for HIV patients. Price of the drug; Price of the generic version of the drug manufactured in Thailand; Importance of the drug for HIV patients who can not afford the price in South Africa.

Discusses the increase in the number of sexually transmitted diseases (STD) in the United States (US). Comments from US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention regarding the issue: Who should be the focus of prevention; Decline in the proportion of homosexually active men who test HIV-positive at city STD clinics; Challenge of preventing a national resurgence of HIV among gay men.

Part II. Discusses the spread of HIV virus in South Africa. Role of migrant labor and practice of polygamy; Education of sex workers on the prevention of the disease.

Focuses on the failure rate of AIDS drugs. Case examples; Comments from physicians; Research findings on the issue.

Reports that South Africa announced that it will not make azidothymidine (AZT), an AIDS vaccine for babies, available to pregnant women. Reason behind South Africa's decision; Information on AZT; Percentage of adults in the country that are infected with the AIDS virus.

Reveals that the HIV epidemic among intravenous drug users in New York City is declining since the early 1990s. Refusal of United States President Bill Clinton to approve funding for needle exchange programs; Studies that show the decline in rate of HIV infections; Reasons for the decline.

Scrutinizes the ethical aspect of a study conducted by the New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI) on the use of fenfluramine on children. Purpose of the study; Information on fenfluramine procedure; Requirements of the procedure; Possible side effects of the drug.

Features Ken Moody's exercise classes. `Strength and Alignment' at Revolution as the most popular class of Moody; Reasons of his clients for signing up on his class; Effect of alopecia on Moody; How he ended up as an instructor; Motivations on his clients; Views of clients about Moody's classes.

Relates the experience and triumph of Gad Beck, leader of resistance movement Chung Chalusi, during the persecution of the Jews in 1942. Information about Chung Chalusi; Atrocities inflicted by the Nazis to gays and lesbians; How his homosexuality influenced how he fought; His involvement with Herr Wahlisch, a German soldier; Imprisonment of Gad; How he set other Jewish prisoners free.

Reflects on the implication of the continuous rise of mortality of women with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in New York. Reason for the continued rise of deaths among HIV-positive women; Life stories of women with HIV; Speculations on the biological reasons of the increasing women's death rate; Social factors affecting substandard health care of HIV-positive women.

Presents information on Dawn Young, HIV-positive individual who has been denied the federal disability program. Reasons for the denial from availing the program; How people with HIV are stranded in medical uncertainty; Provisions of the governor's disability program; Young's inability to find employment; More information.

Looks at the public's response to the 4th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, the most prestigious annual AIDS science meeting. Estimated number of participants; Topic of discussion at the meeting; What scientist has discovered about the AIDS virus.

Reports that New York's Department of Health has failed to spend the federal money earmarked for HIV prevention. Amount of money that went unspent between 1993 and 1995; Problems which the unspent money represents; Comments from Ravinia Hayes-Cozier, director of the city's Bureau of HIV Program Services; Reference to the private management of the Ryan White grant. INSET: How does New York rate?..