2/21/86 - KOKOMO, IND., Ryan White, center, stands outside Western Schools Corp. Middle School near Kokomo 2/21, after his first day back in class after fight to be readmitted.

Ryan White was a hemophiliac and became infected from a contaminated blood treatment. When he was diagnosed in 1984, many parents and teachers in his community of Kokomo, Ind., tried to bar him ...

Ryan White’s short life is a national story. The boy who was infected with HIV during a blood transfusion. The Western Middle School student who wasn’t allowed to attend school. The teen and ...

Twenty years ago, Ryan White died from complications related to AIDS. When White was diagnosed at age 13, he began a five-year journey that would make him the public face of a disease that many ...

A decade ago, in a graduate seminar on “problems” in the history of medicine, my classmates and I began noticing something we came to call “the AIDS epilogue.” A great many books by ...

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

The Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act provides funding to cover medical and support services for low-income people with HIV. 4 In this study, ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Ryan White's family continues to share his story 30 years after he died from AIDS. His mom, Jeanne White-Ginder and sister, Andrea White, were at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis ...

In some ways, the recent furor over Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act echoed a heated discrimination debate from three decades ago, when the state was previously a battleground in the ...