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David France's How to Survive a Plague: The Story of How Activists and PDF

By David France

ISBN-10: 1509839380

ISBN-13: 9781509839384

ISBN-10: 1509839402

ISBN-13: 9781509839407

Winner of the fairway Carnation Prize for LGBTQ literature

Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT non-fiction

Shortlisted for the Wellcome ebook Prize 2017

'This beautifully written chronicle will stand as a towering paintings in its box' Sunday Times

'Inspiring, uplifting and worthy interpreting' - Steve Silberman writer of Neurotribes, Financial Times

How to outlive a Plague via David France is the riveting, robust and profoundly relocating tale of the AIDS epidemic and the grass-roots stream of activists, lots of them dealing with their very own life-or-death struggles, who grabbed the reins of clinical learn to aid strengthen the medicine that became HIV from a usually deadly an infection to a workable illness. all over the world, the 15.8 million humans taking anti-AIDS medications this present day are alive because of their efforts.

Not because the e-book of Randy Shilts's now vintage And the Band performed On in 1987 has a booklet sought to degree the AIDS plague in such brutally human, intimate, and hovering phrases.

Weaving jointly the tales of dozens of people, this can be an insider's account of a pivotal second in our historical past and person who replaced the best way that clinical technology is practised worldwide.

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