How to Survive a Plague
Nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Documentary and featured on over 15
top-ten lists, HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE is the story of the brave young men and
women who successfully reversed the tide of an epidemic, demanded the attention
of a fearful nation, and stopped AIDS from becoming a death sentence. This
improbable group of activists bucked oppression and infiltrated government
agencies and the pharmaceutical industry, helping to identify promising new
medication and treatments and move them through trials and into drugstores in
record time. In the process, they saved their own lives and ended the darkest
days of a veritable plague, while virtually emptying AIDS wards in American
hospitals. Theirs is a classic tale of activism that has since inspired
movements for change in everything from breast cancer research to Occupy Wall
Street.
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