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Fiasco: The AIDS Crisis

Written by: Leon Neyfakh, Andrew Parsons, Sam Graham-Felsen, Madeline Kaplan, Ula Kulpa, Prologue Projects
Narrated by: Leon Neyfakh
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  • Summary

  • From the co-creators of Slow Burn, Fiasco is a narrative podcast that transports listeners into the day-to-day reality of America’s most pivotal historical events. 

    Using original interviews with dozens of key players, host Leon Neyfakh brings to life the forgotten twists and turns of the past while shedding light on the present day. The new season of Fiasco goes deep on the AIDS epidemic in America, with a special focus on the early years of the crisis, when a diagnosis was tantamount to a death sentence. The eight-part series looks at the mystery and missteps around identifying and treating a new, contagious disease, and what it took to get the public - and the government - to care.
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    Feb 22 2022

    From the co-creators of Slow Burn, Fiasco is a narrative podcast that transports listeners into the day-to-day reality of America’s most pivotal historical events. 

    Using original interviews with dozens of key players, host Leon Neyfakh brings to life the forgotten twists and turns of the past while shedding light on the present day. The new season of Fiasco goes deep on the AIDS epidemic in America, with a special focus on the early years of the crisis, when a diagnosis was tantamount to a death sentence. The eight-part series looks at the mystery and missteps around identifying and treating a new, contagious disease, and what it took to get the public - and the government - to care.
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  • Episode 1: Gay Plague

    Episode 1: Gay Plague
    Mar 24 2022

    How doctors and scientists responded to the arrival of a strange and terrifying new disease.

    You can find a list of books, articles, and documentaries we used in our research at bit.ly/fiascopod
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  • Episode 2: How to Have Sex in an Epidemic

    Episode 2: How to Have Sex in an Epidemic
    Mar 31 2022

    As the AIDS crisis worsens, gay men in New York City improvise a response, forming alliances and drawing battle lines.

    You can find a list of books, articles, and documentaries we used in our research at bit.ly/fiascopod
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    49 mins
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Leon Neyfakh RULES in telling this story

I have listened to all the FIASCO podcasts and this one, like the rest, are expertly researched and told. Highly recommended. Can’t wait to see what crisis is tackled next.

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Brilliantly done

This podcast empathetically and honestly explores the history of HIV and AIDS from a scientific, political and most importantly a human perspective.
If you do not believe in science or civil rights, however, it may not be the podcast for you.

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Ignores the Real Fiasco

Book ignores how CDC intentionally created unnecessary fear in the community by exaggerating transmission in heterosexual community and how it was spread in homosexual community.

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