Ryan
White courageously fought AIDS-related
discrimination and helped educate
the Nation about HIV/AIDS.
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Ryan
White was an Indiana teenager with
hemophilia who contracted AIDS through
a blood transfusion. He courageously
fought AIDS-related discrimination
and helped educate the Nation about
his disease.
Ryan
White was diagnosed with AIDS at age
13. He and his mother Jeannie White
fought for his right to attend school,
gaining international attention. Ryan
was featured on countless television
shows and magazine covers and was
the subject of a television movie
about his life. Ryan White died on
April 8, 1990, at the age of 18, just
a few months before Congress passed
the AIDS bill that bears his name-the
Ryan White CARE (Comprehensive AIDS
Resources Emergency) Act. The legislation
has been reauthorized three times
since-in 1996, 2000, and most recently
in with the most recent 2006 enactment
renaming the program as the Ryan White
HIV/AIDS Program.
Ryan's mother, Jeanne White Ginder, continues to speak out about HIV/AIDS stigma and discrimination. She has been a speaker at numerous event sponsored by the Health Resources and Services Administration's HIV/AIDS Bureau for programs funded to deliver Ryan White services. Read Mrs. White Ginder's letters to attendees at recent Ryan White Grantee Meeting and Clinical Update national conferences, including the 2006 and 2008 meetings.
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