art in the AIDS situation. The governments blood banks did not wish to check blood with a test developed by the CDC because it was not cost-efficient. The government also neglected the CDC of large sums of money needed in the pursuit of a cure or vaccine in the disease and thought more of dollar signs that the lives of people. Ronald Regan did not speak of AIDS in public and obviously did not want to touch on that subject. By the time that he did, AIDS had taken the lives of several thousand people.In conclusion, the movie And the Band Played On was a factual account of AIDS in the 80s and its effects on various groups of people. It covered topics that normal movies may think of as taboo....
