China's HIV-Positive

Gu Changwei's "Love for Life" is the story of a young man and woman living in the 1990s, both infected with HIV through tainted needles in blood-selling, who fall in love and marry. Starring Chinese superstars Aaron Kwok and Zhang Ziyi, the film tracks the social stigmas they struggle with – as well as their banal moments of mirth – until their eventual death from AIDS. It takes place during the first ten years of the AIDS epidemic in China, in a time when information about the disease was limited.

"Love for Life"

Globally, this year marks the 30th anniversary for AIDS awareness, and much as changed in China. Starting in 2003, China launched its "Four Frees, One Care" policy, which has brought the number of people receiving treatments from virtually zero in 2003, to over 86,000 in 2010. In the documentary, "Together," produced by the same filmmakers of "Love for Life," contemporary challenges and discrimination are highlighted in the profiles of three HIV-positive people.