HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE (Documentary)

I lost too many friends in the 1980s-1990s to the AIDS epidemic.  I was busy having babies in the 80's so I didn't have a chance to lend my physical support to ACT UP, the group of brave, educated and passionate gay people who implored our government to provide healthcare to the thousands and then millions of people afflicted with this virus.  I remember so well the fear that hospital employees felt when working with AIDS patients.  All based on erroneous information and paranoia about contagion.  And President Bush asking for people to change their behavior! And watching people die lonely and pitiful deaths because of lack of services.  In the 1990's Abe was the AIDS Social Worker at St. Luke's Hospital on 112th Street and Amsterdam Ave. NYC.  We brought our children (ages 7 and 4) to that unit to see what their father did for a living and meet the patients who he cared about.  I will never forget that visit and neither have they!  Abe became seriously ill while working on that unit and was hospitalized himself for a couple of weeks and then a lengthy convalescence with visiting nurses for 2 months.  Yeah, we were scared.  But it wasn't the AIDS virus.  It was a curable liver abscess!  We were the lucky ones.  This documentary is passionate, revealing, informative and timeless.  See it on DVD like we did.