How to Survive a Plague: The Next Great HIV/AIDS History

Volberding talks about documentary How to Survive a Plague. The documentary was about the early AIDS epidemic and was released to wide acclaim including an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature. Using video footage of meetings and demonstrations and interviews with principals of the movement, the film introduces the viewer to vivid characters who mobilized social services for dying patients with AIDS and prodded cautious Food and Drug Administration officials to listen to patients and speed their drug evaluation and approval process.