How Activists Changed American Healthcare

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This is Roots of Resistance! Join Felecia for the Win, and discover how the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) revolutionized the healthcare system by challenging pharmaceutical companies, advocating for faster drug approvals, and demanding patient involvement in medical decisions in their effort to combat the AIDS crisis.
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@karenstimson2683 3 месяца назад

This brings back memories! I was in my 30's during this period. In 1988 my brother-in-law Charles and his partner Joey were both diagnosed with HIV. Charles joined ACT UP and participated in many of their actions in NYC. He was arrested once and the police refused to let him have his anti-HIV meds while he was in jail. Joey got full-blown AIDS and died in 1994. He was a brilliant artist, and a beautiful human being. I still miss him. Charles has been living with HIV for for 36 years now, and his new partner has been living with AIDS for just as long. Both are now in their 60's, largely because of the work that ACTUP and other activists did.

@im.empimp 3 месяца назад

💜💔💜 I'm glad that your brother-in-law and his partner were able to actively advocate for this. I'm so sorry that y'all lost Joey, but am glad to hear that Charles and his partner have been able to benefit from the subsequent research.

@jamessteven1858 3 месяца назад

Thank you #DRABIOLA for being the reason am smiling today, you gave me hope and am proud to call you my doctor for curing me from HSV1 and 2 through your medication I'm thankful for the good work you did

@PaulHFleming Месяц назад

@@karenstimson2683 God bless them both 🤍🤗

@TheSuzberry 3 месяца назад

I took my little daughter to see the AIDS quilt when it was on the Mall in DC. The fact that we lost so many loved ones and the US lost so much love, talent and skill still makes me angry.

@jamessteven1858 3 месяца назад

@MxAmericanPi 3 месяца назад

Anthony Fauci cited Kramer's letter that cursed him out directly as a major reason that he began to take the crisis more seriously. I work in HIV prevention and it's upsetting how little people know about the history.

@samwill7259 3 месяца назад

Name and Shame. If you know who in power is responsible for the oppression, make sure they know it, make sure EVERYONE knows it

@nobody8328 3 месяца назад

Ronald F'kn Reagan

@jenniferburns2530 3 месяца назад

It is easy to get discouraged by the amount of bureaucracy involved in developing and approving medical treatments. Thanks for highlighting the important work of ACT UP and how these activists made changes that still benefit us today.

@jamessteven1858 3 месяца назад

@bnthern 3 месяца назад

a warm and yey terrifing presentation which shows the remaining contenious nature of healthcare today!!

@PokhrajRoy. 3 месяца назад

Funny how the Ronald Reagan biopic was announced. Yeah, now try incorporating the time he flat out refused to help Rock Hudson who needed urgent care as well as the downplaying of the AIDS crisis.

@debrabarnhardt1103 3 месяца назад

The election of Ronald Reagan was one of the saddest points in my lifetime. One man dedicated to reviving the worst of the Nixon years. I feared it would be a downward spiral from there and it has been.

@jamessteven1858 3 месяца назад

@PaulHFleming Месяц назад

Really disturbing part was that Reagans knew Rock Hudson from their days in Hollywood. Yet, refused help a friend in his life and death struggle.

@Senthiuz 9 дней назад

The craziest Regan story I know is that in late 1983, he watched The Day After, and it changed his mind about nuclear war. For his first three years as president, Rondald Regan believed a nuclear war could be won.

@Caterfree10 3 месяца назад

In this house, we love and appreciate our Qu33r elders for their hard work protecting our community when the government failed us. But make no mistake, AIDS still rages on, especially in underserved communities such as black MSM. (I do hope they forgive the self censorship no thanks to RU-vid’s comment policies tho. 😩) Also, everyone wanting to know more should read the book And the Band Played On. Worth it on every level.

@jamessteven1858 3 месяца назад

@xDianaMoonx 3 месяца назад

It's sad how newer generations don't learn as much about the AIDs epidemic that we did in the 90s. But at the same time that does mean that things have changed for the better. Thank you for this video, as it's definitely still prevalent to today. I would also recommend this lovely French movie 120 BPM (Beats per Minute). It's about the Act Up movement in France, and of course as it's a movie has a lot of dramatization but yeah parallels a lot of what was talked about in this video. Very powerful movie.

@jamessteven1858 3 месяца назад

@paytonpryor 3 месяца назад

Thank you for covering this topic.

@prettypic444 3 месяца назад

Reagan once again being the Kevin Bacon of everything wrong with America

@anthonybird546 3 месяца назад

I was a kid and growing up, didn't know anyone affected by AIDS, but I remember as a kid going from first being aware of it, and used as kinda of a gay joke and moral panic, to becoming understood as a serious, dangerous, heartbreaking disaster, and it was thanks to all these activists coming together, even to teach kids the facts about this disease. What amazing people who took action and made change happen.

@PokhrajRoy. 3 месяца назад

More than Covid itself, there was that whole monkeypox virus which then almost became a repeat of the stigma from the ‘80s.

@Caterfree10 3 месяца назад

That’s bc monkeypox wasn’t airborne. Covid is but people including CDC officials downplayed this, and now we have fucktons of variants of a full body virus all throughout the world bc god forbid people think of others and wear a mask and stay home for a month.

@jspihlman 3 месяца назад

It's thanks to gay men getting vaccinated so quickly and in such high numbers that Mpox didn't become a bigger outbreak.

@BrillianceProper 3 месяца назад

Congrats to Felicia, love that she got this opportunity. And this is important information for everyone. I learned a lot here.

@davidshi451 3 месяца назад

"Our direct action was both on target and hilarious. NIAID would have these cocktail receptions, starting at five, after the regular meet- lings were over, and we had these custom fortune cookies made up. We got one of the servers at the hotel to let us have one of those silver trays, and we put the fortune cookies on there-right with the cheese platter, and whatever. The fortunes all said, "NIAID, Form a Women's Commit- tee." When you opened up the cookie, that's what it said. And the looks on the people's faces when they saw what the fortune was in those cook- les, really, there was nothing better." -Let the Record Show, a history of ACT UP New York

@prettypic444 3 месяца назад

“The people with X are the experts on the disease” SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK!!! (But seriously, it’s SO FRUSTRATING being a disabled person and having doctors’/experts’/nondisabled’s opinion prioritized over your own experiences! I’ve had a ton of doctors, teachers, and other people INSIST I didn’t need/“deserve” accommodations because I didn’t fit their preconceived notions!)

@jamessteven1858 3 месяца назад

@dragonflies6793 3 месяца назад

Yes!! We're multiply disabled and a system and the way so-called "experts" spread so much misinformation about DID, refusing to listen, insisting our reality can't possibly be real just because it's different from theirs. And in a more traditional experience of disability, we had to wait a year to get a wheelchair because no one would listen to us saying we needed it and kept saying we just had to "build back up our strength" as if we don't have lifelong chronic illnesses.

@rJaune 3 месяца назад

This was fantastic! Thank you for bringing to light how ACT UP's influence and tactics are still having positive inpacts today. These people were truely courageous! Happy Pride!

@jamessteven1858 3 месяца назад

@kellengold7828 3 месяца назад

ACT UP NY is still around and protesting!

@ubadahoop 3 месяца назад

Ann Northup was an ACT UP member arrested at those protests and she hosts a weekly newscast called GAY USA which I highly recommend.

@Raddiebaddie 3 месяца назад

Important to remember our history and the activists who got us to where we are today

@ShenaedraTatum 3 месяца назад

Amazing loved every minute of it!

@lorenstiteler305 3 месяца назад

Thank you for sharing our history 🌈

@kaylawatkins6528 3 месяца назад

Fantastic work, love the host, all power to the people! Love seeing the complexity of effective organizing.

@rosemarymcbride3419 3 месяца назад

We need this kind of energy to protect trans healthcare. OUR bodily autonomy is YOUR bodily autonomy

@softwaifu 3 месяца назад

"Protesting never did anything" - the dumbest guy you know, probably

@windlessoriginals1150 3 месяца назад

Thank you

@chelseashurmantine8153 3 месяца назад

Badass.

@AnthemUnanthemed 3 месяца назад

"what lessons from act up do you think are still applicable today" How about everything? The war on trauma and people suffering, by criminalizing and stigmatizing well documented a medical condition called substance use disorder makes me mad, we need to start using literally everything learned because many many more people will die from it, most likely due to downstream effects of policy decisions.

@wmdkitty 3 месяца назад

Using drugs is a choice, not a disease.

@TwisterTornado 3 месяца назад

@@wmdkitty Many people on opioids were FIRST prescribed painkillers, from a doctor. This has been well established; the Sackler family had to pay billions. Catch up.

@AnthemUnanthemed 3 месяца назад

@@wmdkitty substance use disorder is a well know recognized and diagnose condition. For more people than you want to admit, the choice is either, a quick end, or using for long enough so that u can find something that works and get better. People with chronic pain dont chose to be debilitated by their symptoms, same with people who have executive function issues, and if using a drug gets them through the day without ending it, why arent we trying to help these people rather than lock them in a cage?

@jamessteven1858 3 месяца назад

@mrroberttrujillo 3 месяца назад

Right on!!!

@denelson83 3 месяца назад

Yeah, now what about the fight for universal health care in the US?

@PaulHFleming Месяц назад

I remember those early days in mid 1980s, the Gay community pushed hard to get Medical and Research communities take swifter action. Although there are new drugs help slow progress of HIV; they still cost thousands of dollars. The pharmsucical industry still making billions in profits. Even after drugs parents are allowed offer generic versions

@gabriellef3351 3 месяца назад

I used to work with a jw. I could tell it was hard to reconcile what is and what they tried to believe

@jamessteven1858 3 месяца назад

@dmiariana 3 месяца назад

Loved thisshit

@curiousfirely 3 месяца назад

This is an amazing video, but doesn't describe citizen science.

@lyspaere 3 месяца назад

My understanding is that some citizens contribute data, some citizens contribute personal experience (e.g. "those with ___ are the experts on ___", from the video), some citizens contribute enthusiasm, and some citizens contribute professional experience, and together they have, in a word, publishable scientific conclusions.

@pbsorigins 3 месяца назад

We appreciate your comment and have tweaked the headline to more accurately reflect the storyline. Thank you

@MaxSand-i4n Месяц назад

Nothing good comes from wokeness, create more mental problems and then have to try and fix them , creating more and more distress among these people, very sad

@TheBostricano 3 месяца назад

Manipulation at its best.YOU DONT GET TO TELL ME HOW TO FEEL!!! GIVE ME THE FACTS, NOT YOUR BULLYING EDITORIAL

@MoeMa4 3 месяца назад

Its sad that you completely neglected to mention that ACT UP movement is still very active and advocating for Palestinian rights using similar strategies. But this is a PBS channel after all.