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.

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 ...

Jeanne White-Ginder, Ryan’s mother, considered Factor VIII a miracle drug. But others in the family viewed it with concern.

Upon White's death, President George H.W. Bush said, "Ryan's death reaffirms that we as a people must pledge to continue the fight, his fight against this dreaded disease.'' ...

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, 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 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.

"People Ryan's age that are parents now bringing their kids in. They knew the story, they lived through the story, and now they're teaching their kids about the story," said White-Ginder. "And about ...

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 ...

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, the authors aimed to ...

The Quiet Hero: A Life of Ryan White —a book released this month by the Indiana Historical Society in the midst of the RFRA media firestorm, at an Indianapolis event attended by pioneering Olympic ...