Community Powered Public Health: Film Screening: HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE

Join Whitman-Walker Health, and our partners: Center for Black Equity, Food and Friends, HIPS, and Us Helping Us, as we come together in Community Powered Public Health, to bring you a special Screening of the powerful documentary film, “How to Survive a Plague”.

We are marking the 45th Anniversary of the first report of AIDS with reflection on lessons to learn from the community-led response while honoring those who we have lost to HIV and AIDS. Let’s recommit to the work ahead and celebrate our shared courage.

Info: David France’s HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE tells an astounding story of
activism and innovation – about AIDS survival, not death – which has been
overlooked until this timely documentary. Culled from a massive trove of archival
footage, the film is both epic and intimate, tracking a small group of people, most
of them HIV-positive, in their nine-year-long battle to save their own lives. They
end up saving 6,000,000.
It begins in 1987, six years into the epidemic, in Greenwich Village, New York –
the early global epicenter of the epidemic, where half the gay men are already
HIV-positive. On the unfortunate side of that statistic is Peter Staley, an ambitious
young bond trader with boy-next-door looks. Without medications to treat the
infection, he is quickly forced on disability at age 26 and given just 18 months to
live.
Desperate to extend his prognosis – and personally shocked by the indifference
of government and Pharma – Peter joins ACT UP, the history-changing AIDS
activist group.

Info: Immediately following the film screening, we will all proceed to DUPONT CIRCLE for a "Seven Days in June" Candlelight Vigil.

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