Against the discrimination of people with HIV/AIDS

Ryan White was an American teenager from Kokomo, Indiana, who became a national poster child for HIV/AIDS in the United States after being expelled from school because of his infection. Diagnosed with hemophilia when he was only months old, he became infected with HIV as a teenager, from a contaminated blood transfusion as a treatment for his hemophilia. When diagnosed in 1984, was given six months to live.
In 1988, when he was 16 years old, White spoke before President Reagan's AIDS Commission, giving a compelling account of the discrimination he suffered because of his HIV infection. You can still read his speech at WikiSource:
Ryan White's Testimony before the President's Commission on AIDS
Ryan was eighteen when he died in 1990, shortly before he would have completed high school. The U.S. Congress passed a major piece of AIDS legislation, the Ryan White Care Act, shortly after White's death. The Act was reauthorized in 2006; its Ryan White Programs are the largest provider of services for people living with HIV/AIDS in the United States.

[ text adapted from the Wikipedia article Ryan White: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_White ]