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In the first decade of the AIDS epidemic, officially licensed drugs were hard to come by, but there were plenty being trialled around the world. As a result, a network of underground operations began to spring up where these experimental drugs were bought and distributed to AIDS patients who didn't have time to sit and wait for drug regulators to make their minds up about approving new treatments. Diagnosed with AIDS himself, Christopher Harris went in search of anything which might help prolong his life and found a buyers club being run out of a derelict building in his hometown of Atlanta - and he was soon helping to run the operation. Narrator: Chris Pavlo Producer: Richard Fenton-Smith
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