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Nov 30, 2023 · Ryan White was the poster child for AIDS in the 1980s, drawing public attention to the crisis. But for many the stigma persisted.
- Listen to Audio of Ryan White’s Mom
- How Could He Have Aids?
- Mom, I Want to Go to School
- Mom, You Don't Get It
- He Was My Son
- His Legacy Would Be
Ryan’s mom, Jeanne White Ginder, recounts the early years of struggle, pain, and triumph. 1. How Could He Have AIDS? 2. Mom, I Want to Go to School 3. Mom, You Don't Get It 4. He Was My Son 5. His Legacy Would Be
Play audio Transcription of Audio: Ryan White was diagnosed with AIDS on December 17, 1984. He was one of the first children—one of the first hemophiliacs—to come down with AIDS, and it was definitely a time when there was no education and there was hardly any information on AIDS at the time. So I was living in Kokomo, Indiana, and Ryan was attendi...
Play audio Transcription of audio: Ryan really became famous because of his fight to go to school. When Ryan was diagnosed, they only gave him three to six months to live. So at that time, I thought every cough, every fever, I worried that it was going to be his last. And I really never thought he'd be healthy enough to go to school. But as he star...
Play audio Transcription of audio: Then we moved to Cicero, Indiana, and there the community welcomed us. And it was all because of a young girl, named Jill Stuart, who was president of the student body, who decided to bring in the medical experts and talk to the kids, and the kids went home then and educated their parents. So Ryan was welcome. He ...
Play audio Transcription of audio: Well a lot of people will say, "Your son was such a hero" and all that. But to me, he was my son. And you know, sometimes it's so confusing because he was my little boy, and to share him with everybody, because he wasn't perfect, but at the same time, he was my son.
Play audio Transcription of audio: At the time when Ryan was diagnosed with AIDS, I mean, we heard of so many drugs coming out, and none of them was worth nothing. By the time you heard of one, there would be another one out, and you would never get the research for one. And none of them worked. And so even in the early 90s, when I was hearing ther...
In 1988, Ryan White spoke before the President's Commission on the HIV Epidemic. Ryan White told the commission of the discrimination he had faced when he first tried to return to school, but how education about the disease had made him welcome in the town of Cicero.
Apr 8, 2015 · It was Ryan who first humanized the disease called AIDS. He allowed us to see the boy who just wanted, more than anything else, to be like other children and to be able to go to school.
He valiantly fought against a battalion of bigots who saw AIDS as some kind of divine retribution against gay men and intravenous drug users (two of the largest groups stricken with AIDS during...
Feb 20, 2022 · White’s Heroic Activism For AIDS Awareness And Education. During the height of the AIDS epidemic, Ryan White became one of its most important spokesmen, advocating and educating the nation about the disease.
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Apr 8, 1990 · Ryan White was an Indiana teenager with hemophilia who contracted AIDS through a blood transfusion. He courageously fought AIDS-related discrimination and helped educate the Nation about his disease. Ryan White died on April 8, 1990, at the age of 18, just a few months before Congress passed the AIDS bill that bears his name.
