BEING nice gets you nowhere with politicians and big business. It’s financial
clout that counts or, failing that, kicking up a stink. It was the latter path
that a group of New York AIDS activists took in 1987. ACT UP stopped AIDS
conferences in full swing, disrupted speeches by politicians and marched on the
US National Institutes of ÎçÒ¹¸£Àû1000¼¯ºÏ. The group’s message was simple: drugs
companies and AIDS researchers were serving their own ends and ignoring the
needs of people with HIV.
As demonstrators blew whistles and chanted on the streets, other AIDS
activists got stuck into the science. They…
