How To Survive A Plague is the story of two coalitions— ACT UP New Yorkand 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.
Book signing of David Frances' How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS will follow the screening.
Suggested Donation: Bronx Resident $5, General Admission $10, Free 18-and-under.
ABOUT DAVID FRANCE
David France is an American investigative reporter, non-fiction author and filmmaker. He is a contributing editor for New York magazine, former Newsweek senior editor and published in magazines such as The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine and GQ.