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This story originally ran April 7, 2020, to mark the 30th anniversary of Ryan White's death. The trampled grass in the front yard of that modest home in Cicero was a collage of footprints.
Jeanne White-Ginder, Ryan’s mother, considered Factor VIII a miracle drug. But others in the family viewed it with concern.
Ryan White funding has not increased since the program’s initial authorization, although the number of people living with HIV has increased by 33 percent over the same time period.
Ryan White is not alive to celebrate his 50th birthday, Dec. 6. But thousands of people living with HIV crossed the half-century mark recently.
Ryan White, the frail teenage boy who taught the nation tolerance for AIDS victims, was hailed at his funeral Wednesday for building a bridge between fear and understanding. By the hundreds, the ...
Ryan White was diagnosed in 1984 and died in 1990. He contracted HIV through blood-based products used to treat his hemophilia, and learned he had the virus when he contracted a life-threatening ...
Soon after he was born in Kokomo in 1971, Ryan White was diagnosed with Hemophilia A. Dependent on transfusions of blood-clotting factor to live a normal life, at the age of 13 White became ill ...
The Ryan White CARE (Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency) Act was passed in 1990 to fund community-based HIV care and support services for low-income, uninsured, and underinsured people.
"The Ryan White money that the state gets from the federal government is being cut from medical providers by 76%, and all of the support services for people with HIV are being eliminated," Dee said.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — As a mom, all Jeanne White-Ginder wanted was for her son to live. It wasn't meant to be for Ryan White. But the Indiana boy once shunned by society because he had HIV left a ...
From left to right: Stef Willen, Megan Falley, Ryan White, Andrea Gibson, Jessica Hargrave and Tig Notaro attend the world premiere of Come See Me in the Good Light on Jan. 25, 2025.