“How to Survive a Plague” is the definitive book on AIDS activism, a long-overdue update on Randy Shilts’ 1987 “And the Band Played On.” (Unlike Shilts, whose book grew out of his ...

The decades-long AIDS movement gets a thorough reckoning.

How to Survive a Plague Hindsight allows David France's stirring "How to Survive a Plague" a concise overview's clarity and an epic narrative shape, with a happy ending to boot.

David France talked about his book [How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS], in which he reports on the grassroots activism, underground drug markets, and ...

This is the story of ACT UP and other gay activists, and how, at a time when AIDS was misunderstood they stood up, and fought back ...

David France's book illuminates the lives of the extraordinary people who helped turn HIV from a mostly fatal infection into a manageable disease.

The book is also something of a how-to manual for activism. ACT UP agitators shut down the FDA, blocked access to drugmakers’ buildings, and even placed an enormous condom over Helms’s house.

View full size Sundance Selects A protest rally in "How to Survive a Plague." By Stephen Whitty. Newark Star-Ledger.

David France's film debut, "How to Survive a Plague," shows not only devastation, but what was – or wasn't – done about the virus that eventually wiped out over 34 million people. The Kalamazoo ...