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Ronald Dickson Woodroof (February 3, 1950 – September 12, 1992) was an American man who created what would become known as the Dallas Buyer's Club [9] in March 1988, one of several such AIDS buyers clubs that sprang up at the time. After learning he had contracted the human immunodeficiency virus ( HIV) in 1985 and being diagnosed with having ...
Sep 29, 2020 · Ron Woodroof was a real-life AIDS activist who smuggled experimental drugs and challenged the FDA. Learn how the film Dallas Buyers Club portrayed his story and what was true or false about his life.
Nov 1, 2013 · The film Dallas Buyers Club tells the story of Ron Woodroof, a man with AIDS in the 1980s who smuggled in experimental treatments to fight his disease. NPR's Elizabeth Blair reports that the...
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Nov 1, 2013 · How accurate is the movie about the AIDS activist who smuggled unapproved drugs for himself and others? Find out the true details of his diagnosis, his network, his evolution, and his legal battles.
Matthew McConaughey as Ron Woodroof, a real-life person with AIDS who smuggled unapproved pharmaceutical drugs into Texas when he found them effective at improving his symptoms. In an interview with CBS News ' Lee Cowan in February 2014, McConaughey said that he selected the role because he thought it was not just a normal story, but it was a ...
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Nov 3, 2013 · Minutaglio eventually tracked down Ron Woodroof, the wiry, mustachioed, foul-mouthed head of Dallas’s homegrown buyers club, and convinced Woodroof to tell him all about his exploits.
The Life and Times of Ron Woodroof. While DALLAS BUYERS CLUB focuses on the story of just one man, Ron Woodroof, it is his journey through homophobia, drug testing, pharmaceutical sales, and activism that captures the the larger pictures of the real-life tragedies and twists of the AIDS epidemic.
