{"id":19087,"date":"2019-02-11T00:11:17","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T00:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19087"},"modified":"2019-02-11T00:11:17","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T00:11:17","slug":"how-to-demand-a-medical-breakthrough-lessons-from-the-aids-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/11\/how-to-demand-a-medical-breakthrough-lessons-from-the-aids-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Demand A Medical Breakthrough: Lessons From The AIDS Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div id=\"res692468872\" class=\"bucketwrap image large\">\n<div class=\"imagewrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img\" src=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2019\/02\/07\/ap_8909141296-edit-3ee530c8e98e99dfa0af3eb9af61d00b0a3a6b43-s800-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"enlarge-options\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"credit-caption\">\n<div class=\"caption-wrap\">\n<div class=\"caption\" aria-label=\"Image caption\">\n<p>AIDS activist group ACT UP organized numerous protests on Wall Street in the 1980s. The group&#8217;s tactics helped speed the process of finding an effective treatment for AIDS.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"credit\" aria-label=\"Image credit\">Tim Clary\/AP<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In the summer of 1985, Mike Petrelis was savoring life as young, openly gay man in New York City. He&#8217;d landed a cool job working for a film publicist who mostly handled foreign art films. He&#8217;d found an affordable apartment \u2014 not far from the gay mecca of Greenwich Village.<\/p>\n<p>Then one day, Petrelis noticed a sort of blotch on his arm. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2019\/02\/09\/689924838\/how-to-demand-a-medical-breakthrough-lessons-from-the-aids-fight?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=healthcare\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>AIDS activist group ACT UP organized numerous protests on Wall Street in the 1980s. The group&#8217;s tactics helped speed the process of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19087","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hiv"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}