Stephen Fry: HIV and me. Part 1.

Stephen Fry explores what being HIV positive means in the early 21st century. Given that there are now three times more people with AIDS in the UK than there were ten years ago and that in the last ten years heterosexual HIV has risen by 400%, why is it that AIDS rarely hits the headlines? Fry meets a variety of people, both heterosexual and homosexual, who are HIV positive themselves or have experienced a partner with HIV or AIDS. We also watch the process of an HIV blood test being taken and analysed and we visits clubs to discuss the use of condoms among the younger generation. It is perhaps in Africa that HIV / AIDS is at its most frightening with 20-30% of the population in Zimbabwe being infected with AIDS. Fry travels to Africa to see what kind of public health campaigns are being put in place and discovers that the government are largely to blame with the President being reluctant to believe that HIV leads to AIDS.