Event

Seize Control of the FDA (1988)

ACT UP's protest at the FDA's headquarters on 11 October 1988, demanding faster approval of AIDS drugs.

6 links, 2 backed by primary records

How each side tells it

According to ACT UP

Connections 6

ACT UP organised the protest; counts about 1,500 activists According to ACT UP Self-published 1
U.S. Food and Drug Administration target of the protest Primary record 2

Timeline 1 date

Proof 3 sources

Seize Control of the FDA, ACT UP Oral History Project. Self-published
Seize Control of the FDA took place on October 11, 1988. This was ACT UP’s first national action
Approximately 1,500 activists from around the U.S. descended on the headquarters of the Food and Drug Administration in Rockville, MD to demand that the FDA speed up the research, development and approval of drugs for AIDS.
descended on the headquarters of the Food and Drug Administration in Rockville, MD
The History of FDA's Role in Preventing the Spread of HIV/AIDS, U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Primary record
In 1988, hundreds of AIDS activists organized by the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACTUP) surrounded the FDA Parklawn headquarters building
pushed FDA to promulgate new accelerated approval regulations to accompany new treatment regulations for Investigational New Drugs implemented in 1987
Why is the FDA funded in part by the companies it regulates?, ASBMB Today, 2021. Scholarship & press
In 1992, in response to intense pressure, Congress passed the Prescription Drug User Fee Act.

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