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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...
Nov 3, 2013 · Today Dallas Buyers Club is a major Hollywood motion picture starring Matthew McConaughey as a Texas electrician and rodeo habitué who transforms himself into an importer and distributer of...
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 in March 1988, one of several such AIDS buyers clubs that sprang up at the time.
Plot. In 1985, promiscuous Dallas electrician and rodeo cowboy Ron Woodroof is diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and told that he has about 30 days to live. At first, he refuses to accept the diagnosis until he remembers having unprotected sex with a prostitute who was an intravenous drug user.
Nov 8, 2013 · Woodroof, after he was diagnosed with AIDS in the mid-1980s, started a venture called the Dallas Buyers Club, which distributed AIDS treatments not yet approved by the FDA to those who couldn’t...
Nov 1, 2013 · Dallas Buyers Club, starring Matthew McConaughey as Woodroof, has finally arrived, and it chronicles its lead’s struggles with AIDS, as well as his evolution from a homophobic womanizer to a...
Sep 30, 2021 · The Controversy Behind the Scenes of Dallas Buyers Club. When Peter Staley, AIDS activist and an early member of ACT UP, was approached to play a role in Jean-Marc Vallée’s 2013 film, the...
Sep 29, 2020 · Separating fact from fiction, we wanted to take a look at the real Ron Woodroof, the inspiration behind the Matthew McConaughey flick, 'Dallas Buyers Club.'
The Story of the Dallas Buyers Clubs. At its core, Dallas Buyers Club is an exploration of the buyers clubs that emerged in the 1980s as a response to the FDA’s slow approval of drugs needed by AIDS patients. Woodroof, faced with a death sentence, discovered a business opportunity in importing unapproved drugs for himself and other patients.
Oct 26, 2023 · In the summer of 1992, reporter Bill Minutaglio of the Dallas Morning News was chasing down stories about buyers' groups for people seeking AIDS treatment and landed an interview with one club...
