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How to Survive a Plague

 

Writers Guild Theater, 135 S. Doheny Dr, Beverly Hills CA 90211


About the Screening

110 min. 
David France and Howard Gertler

By the mid-1980s, as the official response to the growing AIDS epidemic remained dispiritingly low-key and at times hostile, the activist group ACT UP began focusing media attention on the disease and demanding action from the government and the medical community. While some members of the group staged protests, others immersed themselves in the research being done on the virus and helped achieve a dramatic transformation in its treatment.