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Ryan White was an AIDS and civil rights activist. He was born with severe hemophilia and after contracting a rare form of pneumonia was diagnosed with AIDS at the age of 13. After being diagnosed with AIDS his local community tried to prevent him from returning to school because he had a communicable disease and little was known about it at the time. He fought in court for the right to return to school and won. He died of complications of AIDS in 1990 at age 18.

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