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We Were Here: Realizing the Devastating Effects of AIDS
In this excerpt from the Independent Lens documentary, We Were Here, a nurse who treated patients during the early years of the AIDS epidemic describes how victims of the disease experienced rapid health declines, as they struggled with the onset of pneumonia and Karposi's sarcoma.
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