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One of the first faces of AIDS
Ryan White was diagnosed with full-blown AIDS at age 13, in a time where society was still ignorant and fearful of HIV and AIDS. He contracted it through a Factor 8 treatment, which was a popular treatment at the time for hemophilia, a condition where blood does not clot properly.
Ryan died in 1990 at age 18, after packing in 6 years of media awareness. He was posthumously named Man of the Year by the Indianapolis Star after several years of legal battles just to continue attending school in the area.
Ryan White at a Glance
Ryan Wayne White (December 6, 1971 ? April 8, 1990) was an American teenager from Kokomo, Indiana who became a national poster child for HIV/AIDS in the United States after being expelled from school because of his infection. A hemophiliac, he became infected with HIV from a contaminated blood treatment and, when diagnosed in 1984, was given six months to live. Though doctors said he posed no risk to other students, AIDS was poorly understood at the time, and when White tried to return to school, many parents and teachers in Kokomo rallied against his attendance. A lengthy legal battle with...
The Ryan White Act
The Federal Ryan White Program was enacted in 1990 to improve the quality and availability of care for low-income, uninsured, and underinsured individuals and families affected by HIV disease-those hit hardest by the epidemic. The program is named after Ryan White, an Indiana teenager whose courageous struggle with HIV/AIDS and against AIDS-related discrimination helped educate the nation. Reauthorized three times since its inception-in 1996, 2000, and 2006-the Ryan White Program delivers HIV/AIDS care to over 500,000 people each year.Learn more about the Act here.
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- kikema kikema Aug 21, 2009 @ 5:18 pm
- its just so sad that ryan wayne white died from hiv/aids he was a great kid at hamilton heights high school if some kids dont like him just because he had hiv/aids well its very sad to see someone who suffers hiv/aids . And if you make fun of him remember that at any old age you will you will never know you will have hiv/aids so I suggest you to feel sorry about his mom because she lost her only son.
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- kay kay Feb 12, 2009 @ 9:44 am
- hes a hero in my eyes
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- Comfortdoc Comfortdoc Jun 30, 2008 @ 3:31 pm
- Thank you for joining the HIV/AIDS Awareness Group. A lens on Ryan White will be a great addition.
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- emerlad baxter emerlad baxter Jan 24, 2008 @ 10:55 am
- I love the way that he took time out of his life to try to speak out to other people to try to help them understand AIDS but i think that he deserved a lot better than what he got in the eighteen years that he was in this world i think that it wasn;t fair how other people treated him when he was first diagnosed with AIDS i mean he probably felt bad when they wouldn't let him go back to school. I love how he tried to complete what he was aiming for but the only thing that he didn't complete is living longer than he did i love that about him.
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