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Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
The activist and award-winning author of Loosing the Bonds traces the story of his life as a patient with hemophilia, recounting how after contracting HIV, but not AIDS, from a contaminated blood transfusion, he helped to advance HIV research by becoming a test subject at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In December 1995, the FDA approved the release of protease inhibitors, the first effective treatment for AIDS. For countless people, the drug offered a reprieve from what had been a death sentence; for others, it was too late. In the United States alone, over 318,000 people had died from AIDS-related complications--among them were the singer Michael Callen and the poet Essex Hemphill. Meticulously researched and evocatively told, Two Lives, Two Deaths...
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