How to Survive a Plague: The Story of How Activists and Scientists Tamed AIDSDavid France
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Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction Winner of The Green Carnation Prize for L G B T Q literature Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for L G B T non-fiction Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2017' This superbly written chronicle will stand as a towering work in its field' Sunday Times ' Inspiring, uplifting and necessary reading' - Steve Silberman author of Neurotribes, Financial Times How to Survive a Plague by David France is the riveting, powerful and profoundly moving story of the A I D S epidemic 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 H I V from a mostly fatal infection to a manageable disease. Around the globe, the 15. 8 million people taking anti-A I D S 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 A I D S 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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