On the fight against HIV and AIDS—and on the people who really started the conversation.

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2. A great and timely thread. You might remember 'And the Band Played On', produced by HBO in 1993.

While, like any documentary film, it was in some ways contentious, it really captured the atmosphere of criminal negligence that prevailed in the Reagan administration toward the AIDS crisis at the time.

As Dr. C. Everett Koop pointed out, the administration, from Reagan himself on down, viewed AIDS as a problem that mostly affected only "homosexuals and i.v. drug users" and therefore not fit to be addressed in any way. Rather like the clergy viewed the bubonic plagues in the Middle Ages, really.