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How to Demand a Medical Breakthrough: Lessons from the AIDS Fight
By Nurith Aizenman — 2019
AIDS activist group ACT UP organized numerous protests on Wall Street in the 1980s. The group’s tactics helped speed the process of finding an effective treatment for AIDS.
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