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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 Jeanne 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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