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How to Survive a Plague: The Story of How Activists and Scientists Tamed AIDS

by David France - £12.99  Pan Macmillan (Picador) (2017)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9781509839407 | ISBN 10: 1509839402

Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
 
Winner of The Green Carnation Prize for LGBTQ literature
 
Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT 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 AIDS 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 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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