![]() ![]() However, Shilts also shows that throughout the AIDS crisis, there are faces of humanity who come together for the singular cause of solving the crisis: doctors and scientists devoted to seeking the truth behind the chaos of the epidemic, and political leaders and activists dedicated to finding solutions to the failures of their government. Shilts is critical of the Reagan Administration, whose budget cuts affected the programs that needed funding for AIDS research the scientists, whose dismissal and later rivalry causes the delay of necessary answers the businesses, whose choice to keep blood banks unaccountable and bathhouses liberated helps to spread the disease the mainstream media, which is reluctance to cover the disease and numerous political officials, public health authorities, and community leaders, whose irresponsible and/or blasé attitude sped the deaths and stole the dignity of those affected with AIDS. ![]() ![]() Before the virus even has a name, it leaps across continents and destroys communities, while many stand idly by. ![]() Shilts examines the roots of AIDS beginning in 1976 to two events and focuses on the mysterious illness of a Danish physician working in Africa, Dr. ![]()
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