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How to Survive a Plague

David France

Follow the patients and activists who pushed AIDS research to listen, from the first terrifying cases through treatment breakthroughs, and see what survival still demanded after the drugs arrived.

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13 parts, about 40 minutes to read.

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Author
David France
Parts
13 parts
Reading time
about 40 minutes
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What the summary covers

  1. Survival before and after the breakthrough1 min
  2. The first alarm3 min
  3. Patients build care and prevention5 min
  4. A virus and a patient movement2 min
  5. Public policy and competing explanations4 min
  6. The first antiviral hope2 min
  7. A test, a celebrity, and a research system2 min
  8. What the AZT trial could answer3 min
  9. ACT UP learns to fight4 min
  10. From protest to research decisions3 min
  11. Inside the research system4 min
  12. Fracture and changing evidence3 min
  13. A qualified breakthrough4 min

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