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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.

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.

Profiles Anne Bayley, who first identified the presence of AIDS in Zambia. Career highlights, including how she came to Zambia as a British missionary doctor in 1961; History of the disease's spread in Africa; Patients treated by Bayley at her tumor clinic for Kaposi's sarcoma (KS), whom she recognized as having AIDS; How the association of AIDS with homosexuality greatly inhibited scientific understanding of the disease's transmission; Bayley's contributions to AIDS research; Her personal views on AIDS.

Reports on the efforts of the United Nations Security Council in helping Africa cope up with AIDS. Damages the disease is bringing to the country as of January 2000; Why the council should focus on AIDS.