Who Was Ryan White? The Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program was named for a courageous young man named Ryan White who was diagnosed with AIDS following a blood transfusion in December 1. Ryan White was diagnosed at age 1. Komono, Indiana and was given six months to live. When Ryan White tried to return to school, he fought AIDS- related discrimination in his Indiana community. Along with his mother Jeanne White Ginder, Ryan White rallied for his right to attend school - gaining national attention - and became the face of public education about his disease. Surprising his doctors, Ryan White lived five years longer than predicted. He died in April 1. Congress passed the legislation bearing his name in August 1. Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act. Listen to Jeanne White Ginder recount those early years of struggle, pain, and triumph. Scroll down to listen to all five dialogs: Ryan was one of the first children with hemophilia to be diagnosed with AIDS. B mp. 3)Ryan White was diagnosed with AIDS on December 1. He was one of the first children, one of the first hemophiliacs to come down with AIDS, and it was definitely a time where there was no education and there was hardly any information on AIDS at the time. The Ryan White Care Act was due to be reauthorized at the end of 2005. Congress passed the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act. The Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program. The Ryan White Program, the single largest federal program designed specifically for people with HIV in the United States, is estimated to reach more than half a million people with HIV each year. 1, 2 First enacted in 1990. Favorites; Del.icio.us; Digg; Facebook; Google Bookmarks; About the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program. The Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP) provides a comprehensive system of care that includes primary. Favorites; Del.icio.us; Digg; Facebook; Google Bookmarks; Who Was Ryan White? The Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program was named for a courageous young man named Ryan White who was diagnosed with AIDS following a. So I was living in Kokomo, Indiana, and Ryan was attending Western Middle School, and it was something that I really didn't even believe he had. I really never really believed he had AIDS for quite a while. At that time, of course, he had no precautions, or anything. There were no precautions at the hospital. And all of a sudden the CDC shows up and the CDC started putting in all kind of precautions, you know: the gloves, the gowns, the masks and so forth, and started talking to the nurses and so forth. It became apparent just like overnight that all of a sudden things were different. Will providing Ryan White Program services to eligible populations infringe upon existing resources meant for AIs/ANs? A: Ryan White Program services cannot be denied to clients who are not AIs/ANs. TOPRyan really became famous because of his fight to go to school. B mp. 3)When Ryan was diagnosed, they only gave him 3- 6 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 started getting healthy, as he started gaining weight, he started to ask, . I want to see my friends. He was worried about taking the 7th grade over again, and he didn't want people to think he was dumb, because he was a very smart and intelligent kid. So it was a long process. Through court hearings, we thought it would take one court hearing, and we'd have all these medical experts in so to speak, and then everybody would be educated, but it didn't happen that way. It was really bad. People were really cruel, people said that he had to be gay, that he had to have done something bad or wrong, or he wouldn't have had it. It was God's punishment, we heard the God's punishment a lot. That somehow, some way he had done something he shouldn't have done or he wouldn't have gotten AIDS. TOPMrs. White Ginder recounts Ryan's excitement over getting a summer job. B mp. 3)Then we moved to Cicero, Indiana, and there, the community welcomed us. And it was all because 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 then the kids went home then and educated their parents. So Ryan was welcome, he got to go to school, he got to go proms and dances. It was kind of funny, he came home once after he turned 1. Who is going to hire you, knowing who you are?? What are you going to be doing? I got a job just like everyone else does. He never bragged or anything about who he was, or what he got to do, he just wanted to be around his friends. TOPplay audio (1. B mp. 3)Well a lot of people will say, . 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. TOPPeople are receiving better quality HIV care and living longer HIV. B mp. 3)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 9. I was hearing there was hope, I kind of thought, ! The biggest contribution I think that Ryan made is, and I didn't know it at that time, that his legacy would be that people are getting their drugs and their treatment and that people are living with AIDS.
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