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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, here in 1988, was 13 when he was diagnosed with AIDS after a blood transfusion in 1984. When Ryan tried to return to school in Kokomo, Indiana, he faced AIDS-related discrimination.
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 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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.
John was among the high-profile celebrities who befriended White and his family after his diagnosis until Ryan passed away. He came to Indiana for White's funeral where Ryan's mother, Jeanne ...
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 ...
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