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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
Ginder 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.
Jeanne White-Ginder, stood alongside
her son as a voice of reason about
HIV/AIDS. Listen to her recount those
early years of struggle, pain, and
triumph.
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How Could
He Have AIDS
Ryan
White was diagnosed with
AIDS on December 17, 1984. |
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Mom,
I Want to Go to School
It
was really important to
Ryan, to just be one of
the kids, and to just fit
in. |
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Mom,
You Don't Get It
Sometimes
it was so confusing...to
share him with everybody. |
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He Was
My Son
Ryan
was diagnosed with AIDS
on December 17, 1984 at
the age of 13.
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His Legacy
Would Be
People
are receiving better quality
HIV care and living longer. |
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Mrs. White-Ginder continues to speak
out about HIV/AIDS stigma and discrimination.
She has been a presenter at numerous
event sponsored by the Health Resources
and Services Administration's HIV/AIDS
Bureau for programs funded to deliver
Ryan White services. Read her letters
to attendees at recent Ryan White
Grantee Meetings, held in 2006
and 2008.
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