Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorWelcome to this week’s “Just for Variety.” Although the column usually includes several items about different celebs and industry insiders, this week’s Pride edition is solely about casting director Jeffrey Drew’s participation in an experimental treatment study for an HIV cure and the documentary short that chronicles his journey.
It’s been 40 years since the CDC reported the first cases of what would later become known as AIDS. Here is one man’s story to help find a long overdue cure. Jeffrey Drew was diagnosed with HIV about 34 years ago when he was just 23.
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