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  • How to Survive a Plague

  • The Story of How Activists and Scientists Tamed AIDS
  • Written by: David France
  • Narrated by: Rory O'Malley
  • Length: 24 hrs and 28 mins
  • 4.9 out of 5 stars (7 ratings)

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How to Survive a Plague

Written by: David France
Narrated by: Rory O'Malley
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Publisher's Summary

Winner of The Green Carnation Prize for LGBTQ literature
Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT nonfiction
Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2017

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.

©2017 David France (P)2017 Macmillan Digital Audio
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Critic Reviews

"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)

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