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Who was Ryan White?

Why this source is used

Official Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program page covering Ryan White, HIV discrimination and Congress passing the CARE Act in August 1990.

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Start with the answer How did HIV blood policy and cure research change LGBTQ+ history? They shifted HIV history from crisis response toward care access, evidence-based blood policy and scientific proof that cure was possible in rare cases. Read the topic guide HIV Blood Policy and Cure Research HIV history includes care law, blood-donation reform and proof-of-principle cure cases as well as activism and prevention.

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Publisher
Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program / HRSA
Type
government
Reliability
high
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3 pages

Source Links

Open original source https://ryanwhite.hrsa.gov/about/ryan-white Accessed 4 June 2026 Open archived copy https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://ryanwhite.hrsa.gov/about/ryan-white

Used by Topics

HIV Blood Policy and Cure Research

Used by Questions

How did HIV blood policy and cure research change LGBTQ+ history?

Used by Timeline Events

18 August 1990 HealthLegalInternational

Ryan White CARE Act Signed into Law

President George H.W. Bush signed the Ryan White CARE Act, creating the largest federally funded programme for people living with HIV/AIDS. Named for Ryan White, a young haemophiliac who contracted HIV through a blood transfusion and became a national figure fighting AIDS-related discrimination, White had died four months earlier aged 18. At the time, over 150,000 AIDS cases had been reported in the US.