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

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

David France

624 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction health history lgbtqia+ emotional informative slow-paced

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One of Entertainment Weekly's Top 10 Nonfiction Books of the DecadeA definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic, here is the incredible story of the grassroots activists whose work turned HIV from a mostly fatal infectio...

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