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World AIDS Day: How to Survive a Plague screening and discussion

Young Student Center - Mabel Brown Room
Thursday, · -

World AIDS Day is an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV, show their support for people living with HIV, and to commemorate those who have died.

In honor of this, join us for a screening of How to Survive a Plague, a documentary exploring the experiences of AIDS activists in New York City during the peak of the AIDS crisis in the United States. Following the film, there will be facilitated small group discussions reflecting on the experiences and ideas brought up in the film, how it relates to our current understanding of the AIDS epidemic, and what we can do to reduce the risk and stigma of HIV and AIDS today.

Description of the film: Faced with their own mortality an improbable group of young people, many of them HIV-positive young men, broke the mold as radical warriors taking on Washington and the medical establishment. How to Survive a Plague is the 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. With unfettered access to never-before-seen archival footage from the 1980s and '90s, the viewer is smack in the middle of the controversial actions, the heated meetings, the heartbreaking failures, and the exultant breakthroughs of heroes in the making.

This event is made possible in part by a PepsiCo grant.

This event is open to the public.
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Contact:
Hunter Kirschner
hunter.kirschner@keene.edu
(603) 358-2639
Categories: Diversity
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