Ryan White was a spirited, bright kid who loved basketball, Nintendo and dreaming big. In 1984, 13-year-old Ryan contracted HIV through a contaminated blood transfusion used to treat his hemophilia.

Ryan White’s short life is a national story. The boy who was infected with HIV during a blood transfusion. The Western Middle School student who wasn’t allowed to attend school. The teen and his ...

A decade ago, in a graduate seminar on “problems” in the history of medicine, my classmates and I began noticing something we came to call “the AIDS epilogue.” A great many books by historians of ...

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 ago ...

In the spring of 2026, a memorial sculpture of Ryan, who died at 18, is set to be installed in the Indiana Memorial Union. Born in 1971 with severe hemophilia, a disorder causing blood not to clot ...

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 ...

In a new Johns Hopkins Medicine-led study, researchers predict that ending federal funding for the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program could increase HIV infections across 31 U.S. cities by 49% in the next ...