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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...