Popular Name Statutized?:
Y
Type:
Victim
Date Enacted:
Saturday, August 18, 1990
Short Title:
"Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency Act of 1990"
Classification:
42 USC 201 (note)
PL:
101-381
Statute At Large:
104 Stat 576
Named For?:
Ryan White was diagnosed with AIDS at age 13 and became an advocate for people with the disease. He died a few months before the original act passed in 1990.
Link/Source:
Ryan White was diagnosed with AIDS at age 13 and became an advocate for people with the disease. He died a few months before the original act passed in 1990.
Interesting Part Statutized?:
Y
Notes:
short title; Ryan White contracted HIV from transfusion