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Biography

Name: Ryan White
Birth Date: December 6, 1971
Death Date: April 8, 1990
Place of Birth: Kokomo, Indiana, United States of America
Place of Death: Cicero, Indiana, United States of America
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: AIDS activist

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Biography of Ryan White
1,887 words, approx. 6 pages
Ryan White (1971-1990) contracted AIDS through a blood transfusion when he was 13 and worked to educate people about the disease until his death at age 18. As a result of his efforts, and those of his mother Jeanne, Congress passed the Ryan White...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Ryan White Information
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Ryan Wayne White (December 6, 1971 – April 8, 1990[1]) was a young man with AIDS from Kokomo, Indiana who became a national spokesman for AIDS, after being expelled from school because of his infection. A lifelong hemophiliac, he became infected with...


News and Journals
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Policy Studies Journal
The Ryan White Act in Dallas.
12/22/1999: 9,325 words, approx. 31 pages
Virtually every locality affected by the AIDS epidemic has had to confront changes in the demographics of the disease, shifts in federal priorities, and medical advances in AIDS treatment. Creating a consistent federal policy has proven difficult because the epidemic manifests itself differently in...
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The Washington Post
Ryan White; In the Finest Sense, He's A Survivor
01/15/1989: 773 words, approx. 3 pages
Ryan White's life took a strange turn in 1985: Not only was he diagnosed as having contracted AIDS through a blood transfusion for hemophilia, but he also became a community pariah and, unexpectedly, a media celebrity. His struggle to attend public school in...
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AP News
AIDS comments alarm Ryan White's mother
12/11/2007: 593 words, approx. 2 pages
Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee's 15-year-old comments that AIDS patients should have been isolated have so alarmed the mother of Ryan White, an Indiana teenager whose life-ending battle with AIDS in the 1980s engrossed the nation, that she has asked for a meeting."I would be...
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AP Features
Ryan White's mother seeks meeting with Mike Huckabee to discuss his comments about AIDS
12/11/2007: 593 words, approx. 2 pages
Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee's 15-year-old comments that AIDS patients should have been isolated have so alarmed the mother of Ryan White, an Indiana teenager whose life-ending battle with AIDS in the 1980s engrossed the nation, that she has asked for a meeting."I would be...
 


Criticism and Essays
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Essay Grade: 83%
The Story of Ryan White, a Boy Who Died of AIDS
686 words, approx. 2 pages
Facts and opinions about Ryan White, an Indiana boy who had a celebrated case of AIDS in the 1980s.


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