And the Band Played on
The movie, And the Band Played On, talks about the origin of the AIDS virus and how it was spread across the world. It began with a scene in 1976, Central Africa, that shows how the Ebola disease affected a village and was contained before it was spread. This was to show the beginning of another serious disease called AIDS. The world was not prepared to handle such a contagious plague. Doctors treating people with this virus thought that the first cases of the HIV virus was just an abnormality of a disease, because of this, the disease started to spread all over. During the 141 minutes of this movie, I was able to see different points, such as the beginning of HIV, the misconceptions it had, and the anguish it brought to the doctors as well as people around the world.
I have not read the book And The Band Played On, from Randy Shilts but I've learned that it is a very good resource to learn about AIDS. I think the movie brings a lot of useful......
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