How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS

Name: How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
Author: David France
ISBN: 9781509839414

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How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS

David France

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How to Survive a Plague won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, the Green Carnation Prize for LGBTQ literature, and the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT non-fiction. How to Survive a Plague by David France is a social and scientific history of AIDS, and the grass-roots movement of activists, many of them facing their own life-or-death struggles, who grabbed the reins of scientific research to help develop the drugs that turned HIV from a mostly fatal infection to a manageable disease. Around the globe, the 15.8 million people taking anti-AIDS drugs today are alive thanks to their efforts. Not since the publication of Randy Shilts's now classic And the Band Played On in 1987 has a book sought to measure the AIDS plague in such brutally human, intimate, and soaring terms. Weaving together the stories of dozens of individuals, this is an insider's account of a pivotal moment in our history and one that changed the way that medical science is practised worldwide.

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