Not since the publication of Randy Shilts’s classic And the Band Played On has a book measured the AIDS plague in such brutally human, intimate, and soaring terms. Around the globe, 16 million people are alive today thanks to their efforts. Ignored by public officials, religious leaders, and the nation at large, and confronted with shame and hatred, this small group of men and women chose to fight for their right to live by educating themselves and demanding to become full partners in the race for effective treatments. '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.The definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic-from the creator of, and inspired by, the seminal documentary HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUEĪ riveting, powerful telling of the story of the grassroots movement of activists, many of them in a life-or-death struggle, who seized upon scientific research to help develop the drugs that turned HIV from a mostly fatal infection to a manageable disease. 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. 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. Around the globe, the 15.8 million people taking anti-AIDS drugs today are alive thanks to their efforts. 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. Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2017.
Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT non-fiction. Winner of The Green Carnation Prize for LGBTQ literature. Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. The Story of How Activists and Scientists Tamed AIDS
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