Band Played On

And The Band Played On Video Essay The movie, And The Band Played On, portrayed the discovery of a serious virus back in the late 70s, and through out had a strong emphasis on the scientific findings related to this virus known as HIV/AIDS. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is what it is now known by, with Aquired Immune Defficency Syndrome (AIDS) pertaining to it. HIV interferes with the human body's immune system's function of fighting off disease, which weakens the immune system to the point of having a diagnosis of AIDS. Although, back in the late 70s, scientists knew little to nothing about this serious virus. It hadn't even been named at that point, for the information they had was very limited. The only evidence of a virus at the

This gave them the job of protecting the gay communities reputation. Following the discovery of transmition through blood, they needed funding to further study how to find this virus, but the Red Cross and other blood corporations were not willing to fund it. The process became very political and felt more like a dirty business deal, rather than professional and morally correct. Not only was it hard to get funding, but they also had to deal with the pettiness of Dr. Robert Gallo's fued with the french. The french believed they found the virus, and the CDC sent samples to help, and even though that was the best thing to doin order to find and conrol this virus, Dr. Gallo was not happy and brought the French to court all for credability and basically bragging rights! This slowed down the process even more. The responcibility of insisting funds, securing the public's safety, and protecting the LGBT communities reputation was a lot of work, but perseverance was present and it got them to where they wanted to be - finding a way to control this now dicovered virus! Although they had a lot of hinderance in the discovery, they also had a lot of benefitial findings that pushed them