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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 in March 1988, one of several such AIDS buyers clubs that sprang up at the time.
The film tells the story of Ron Woodroof (Matthew McConaughey), a cowboy diagnosed with AIDS in the mid-1980s, a time when both the etiology and the treatment of HIV/AIDS are poorly understood and its sufferers subject to stigmatization.
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 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.
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.
Nov 8, 2013 · In Dallas Buyers Club, an emaciated Matthew McConaughey plays real-life AIDS victim, Ronald Woodroof. Woodroof, after he was diagnosed with AIDS in the mid-1980s, started a venture called the...
