Politicians, public health officials, and community leaders weren’t proactive enough in fighting against AIDS when they could have been helping people live longer lives with dignity instead of stealing those years away from them by ignoring this terrible epidemic until too late.” The media was reluctant to cover AIDS because it wasn’t seen as an important issue at first.
Businesses that kept their blood banks unregulated helped spread the disease, as did bathhouses in New York City that were not accountable for their patrons’ sexual activities. He also blames scientists who were at odds with each other and failed to work together to find answers.
Shilts criticizes the Reagan Administration for cutting funding to AIDS research programs, which delayed the progress of finding a cure. health officials as gay men died from strange illnesses and pneumonia-like symptoms. Grethe Rask, and the first known case of AIDS being reported to U.S. Two events are analyzed in detail: a mysterious illness of a Danish physician working in Africa, Dr. The author begins by examining the roots of AIDS in 1976. He was able to cover the AIDS epidemic for his newspaper, The San Francisco Chronicle. 1-Page Summary of And The Band Played On Overall SummaryĪnd the Band Played On: Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic is a book about investigative reporting by Randy Shilts.
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