The True Story of an Indiana Teen Barred From School Over His AIDS Diagnosis

The True Story of an Indiana Teen Barred From School Over His AIDS Diagnosis

Ryan White, an Indiana teenager with hemophilia who contracted HIV, became perhaps the most famous person with AIDS in the United States.

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In 1984 American teenager Ryan White was diagnosed as living with HIV. At a time when little was known about the virus, and discrimination was rife, the teenager from Indiana became one of the human faces of the AIDS pandemic. White was a haemophiliac, and contracted HIV via blood transfusions. When first diagnosed he was given just six months to live. As the 1985 US school year commenced White’s health improved and he wanted to return to school…