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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.
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.
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.'' ...
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Jeanne White-Ginder, Ryan’s mother, considered Factor VIII a miracle drug. But others in the family viewed it with concern.
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.
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 ...
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.
The Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act is celebrating its 30th year on Tuesday. The landmark legislation created the largest federal program focused exclusively on ...
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 ...
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 ...