When Dr. Bruce Grey and Dr. Harvey Riker find a cure for AIDS, two young lovers, popular TV journalist Sara Lowell, and Knicks star Michael Silverman, find themselves inextricably caught up in the political double dealings involved in the discovery.

A previously banned work based on a true scandal finds an impoverished village targeted by a blood-selling operation that leads to a catastrophic outbreak of AIDS and decimates an entire community.

Convinced that her beloved twenty-eight-year-old son was killed in spite of a police ruling that he committed suicide, archaeologist Louise Cantor travels throughout the world in search of answers.

The friendship between Alison, a young woman struggling with her ruined career as a fashion model, and Veronica, an older eccentric and proofreader, survives Alison's return to the world of fashion and Veronica's battle with AIDS.

Examines the history and spread of this deadly disease, how HIV and AIDS is contracted, symptoms, and treatments options, and the efforts being made around the world to contain and cure it.

A closer walk is the first film to depict humankind's confrontation with the global AIDS epidemic. The film's director and producer, Robert Bilheimer, is an Academy Award nominee for his film Cry of reason, a profile of the South African anti-apartheid leader Beyers Naude. A closer walk was conceived with the late Jonathan Mann, architect of the World Health Organization's response to global AIDS. For the film, more than 50 women, men, and young people...

HIV is a virus, which attacks the immune system. Most HIV positive people eventually develop AIDS, a collection of diseases and opportunistic infections. Currently there is no cure, but combination drug therapies help combat HIV and have shown to delay progression to AIDS.