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How To Demand A Medical Breakthrough: Lessons From The AIDS Fight

By Nurith Aizenman
Published February 27, 2020 at 12:50 PM EST
AIDS activist group ACT UP organized numerous protests on Wall Street in the 1980s. The group's tactics helped speed the process of finding an effective treatment for AIDS.
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AIDS activist group ACT UP organized numerous protests on Wall Street in the 1980s. The group's tactics helped speed the process of finding an effective treatment for AIDS.
Demonstrators from the organization ACT UP protest in front of the headquarters of the Food and Drug Administration. The FDA opened up access to experimental drugs soon after.
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Demonstrators from the organization ACT UP protest in front of the headquarters of the Food and Drug Administration. The FDA opened up access to experimental drugs soon after.
December 1989: At left, members of ACT UP mount a protest outside St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York. At right, activist Michael Petrelis inside the cathedral shouts "Stop killing us!" in the middle of the service.
/ Images from the documentary "How to Survive a Plague" by David France
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Images from the documentary "How to Survive a Plague" by David France
December 1989: At left, members of ACT UP mount a protest outside St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York. At right, activist Michael Petrelis inside the cathedral shouts "Stop killing us!" in the middle of the service.
Nurith Aizenman
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