Sandy Dossantos: How One Boy Changed the Course of HIV History
Sandy Dossantos, Pre-Clinical Imaging Technologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“During the 1980s, AIDS was running rampant in the states. At the time, public health officials warned that homosexuals, drug users, hemophiliacs, and Haitians were at the highest risk of contracting (and possibly spreading, since nobody knew yet that HIV was causing AIDS) the disease.
For 13-year-old Ryan White who was born with hemophilia and wasn’t allowed to return to school because of his status, he and his mother fought for his right for an education.
Over forty years later, his legacy still lives on in 2026 through legislation passed under his name.
Why did he have to fight in the first place?”
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