The film And The Band Played On is a 1993 docudrama film by Roger Spottiswoode depicting the epidemic of the AIDS virus. As the film first starts off, Dr. Francis whose working for the CDC heads over to Africa to study the Ebola Fever. The Ebola outbreak was controlled before it reached further distance of the outside world, but it was a warning for worse to come. HIV, also known as Human Immunodeficiency Virus is a virus that attacks the immune system. After time, when the immune system becomes much weaker it turns into AIDS, also known as Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. Our immune system is one of our biggest defenses against illnesses. The virus destroys a type of white blood cell located in our immune system known as our T cells.
