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Years, it's more than $900 million a year for communities hardest hit for the aids epidemic. >> the bill was named for ryan white, the indiana teenager who died from aids this year. >> this legislation converts the millions of dollars in federal research into treatments that are available to the public. >> the ryan white act is the only law on the books today that is our essential answer to dealing with the aids epidemic. it's the lifeline for people getting drugs. >> for americans who were too prejudiced, too homophobic to confront aids as a national crisis. ryan white gave them an avenue to ...

Year for communities hardest hit for the aids epidemic. >> the bill was named for ryan white, the teen who died of aids this year. >> this legislation converts the millions of dollars in federal research into treatments that are available to the public. >> the ryan white act is the law on the books today that is our essential answer to dealing with the aids epidemic. it's the lifeline for people getting drugs. >> for americans who were too prejudiced, too homophobic to confront aids as a national crisis. ryan white gave them an avenue to do the right thing for aids research. that boy did not d...

>> elizabeth taylor, she stood out at a time when nobody stood up and lambasted the government. elizabeth glazer with the pediatric aids foundation, another hero i had lunch with and lost her life and her daughter lost her life. courageous people who stood up at a time it was so unfashionable and dangerous to speak out. american government didn't really do anything or speak about it for seven years. it was like, you know, it's homosexuals, let them die. i hate to say that but it's the truth. and then the ryan white act. it took a young boy to die to completely turn people's opinions around abo...