In time, it would be discovered that the “gay cancer” was in fact an opportunistic infection that flourished in the face of its’ patients weakened immune systems, immune systems brought low by HIV. Usually seen in old men of Jewish or Mediterranean descent, KS is most obvious in the purple spots it raises on the skin. The first inkling of what was to come was hidden in a New York Times article weeks after his arrival, which described a spate of rarely-diagnosed Kaposi’s sarcomas (KS) that had manifested in gay patients in Manhattan and San Francisco. An authoritative account of a bleak time in human history, the book spans both abject horror and radiant hope-regularly moving you to tears.įrance was on the frontline of the titular plague, moving right into the hottest of hot zones, Manhattan, in 1981.
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.To read How To Survive A Plague, David France’s written companion to his award-winning documentary of the same name, is to be confronted with the absolute extremes of human nature. 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 a social and scientific history of AIDS, 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 Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo The riveting, powerful and profoundly moving story of the AIDS epidemic.
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