Original title
How to Survive a Plague
Released
9/21/2012
Origin country
US
Genre
Documentary, History
Production companies
Impact Partners, Little Punk, Ninety Thousand Words, Public Square Films, Ford Foundation, Ted Snowdon Foundation
Budget
—
Revenue
$122,665.00
Runtime
1hr 49min
A story of two coalitions – ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group) – whose activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable condition. Despite having no scientific training, these self-made activists infiltrated the pharmaceutical industry and helped identify promising new drugs, moving them from experimental trials to patients in record time.
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