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It’s been a privilege to witness the remarkable progress over the last several decades, with the story of HIV transforming ...
White became perhaps the most famous person with AIDS in the United States, if not the world, after he was barred from attending his middle school because of his condition. Ryan White’s curious ...
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Thirty-five years ago, a young boy from Kokomo became a national symbol in the fight against AIDS-related discrimination. Ryan White was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS 40 years ...
Unlike the archetypal person with AIDS (a gay man, an intravenous drug user, a sex worker, etc.), Ryan was white, charismatic, presumed to be straight, and lacking in social or sexual baggage.
He would have turned 53 on December 6. A new book, “The Life and Death of Ryan White: AIDS and Inequality in America” (University of North Carolina Press), takes an academic and critical look ...
A nation that had ignored so many AIDS-related deaths could not ignore Ryan White’s funeral. Held on April 11, 1990, in “the gothic expanse of Second Presbyterian Church” in Meridian Hills ...
It also means they can lead long, healthy lives and avoid developing AIDS, the deadly disease that's caused by HIV. Now for patients in the federal Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program... CAROLE JOHNSON ...
The event, marking World AIDS Day, featured remarks by the Bidens and Jeanne White-Ginder, whose teenage son Ryan White died of AIDS in 1990. Sign up here. Both Bidens grew emotional during their ...
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Thirty-five years ago, a young boy from Kokomo became a national symbol in the fight against AIDS-related discrimination. Ryan White was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS 40 years ...
My new book examines the life, death, and legacies of Ryan White, the Indiana teenager with hemophilia who contracted HIV through contaminated blood products in the early to mid-1980s. White became ...
The historian Paul M. Renfro’s excellent new book, The Life and Death of Ryan White: AIDS and Inequality in America, does not quite belong to this trend. Instead, it is part of an equally worthy and ...
Florida State University history professor Paul Renfro discussed the life and death of Indiana teenager Ryan White, who emerged as one of the faces of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. Florida State ...