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How to Survive a Plague
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An Oscar-nominated, eye-opening, informative, inspirational documentary that uses film clips and interview snippets with PR executive Bob Rafsky, experimental playwright Jim Eigo, executive network news producer Ann Northrop, writer Larry Kramer, research scientist Dr. Emilio Emini, Merck medicinal chemist Dr. Joseph Vacca, artist Ray Navarro, NIH AIDS research director Dr. Anthony Fauch, video artist Gregg Bordowitz, gay rights activist David Barr, AIDS activist and Wall Street bond trader Peter Staley, club DJ Bill Bahlman, actor Spencer Cox, Dr. Barbara Starrett, retired pharmaceutical chemist Iris Long, film archivist Mark Harrington, AMFAR executive Mathilde Krim, bookstore clerk Derek Link, NIH chief AIDS biostatistician Dr. Susan Ellenberg, and Dr Ellen Cooper to chronicle the rising AIDS crisis between 1987 and 1995 and the nonviolent protests of HIV-positive and AIDS-afflicted patients through the ACT UP and TAG (treatment action group) coalitions to obtain equal rights for healthcare and to urge the FDA to streamline the testing of drugs and the approval process in order to make lifesaving treatments available sooner to treat and manage AIDS and HIV at an affordable cost.

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2012
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