Media Relations
Wednesday,
April 15,
2009
Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention
The Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention at Indiana University announced plans today to honor the legacy of C. Everett Koop, M.D., former U.S. surgeon general, with the establishment of the annual Surgeon General C. Everett Koop HIV/AIDS Research Grant, which will support doctoral student research related to AIDS/HIV prevention.
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Emmy award-winning AIDS activist Rae Lewis-Thornton will launch the Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention's seventh national conference at Indiana University Bloomington by focusing attention on the urgent need to address AIDS/HIV-related issues among African Americans. James W. Curran, M.D., dean and professor at Emory University, will receive the Ryan White Distinguished Leadership Award.
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Indiana University's Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention and the School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation have established the Ryan White Legacy Scholarship in honor of Ryan White, the rural Indiana 13-year-old who contracted HIV through tainted blood products given for his hemophilia. White died from AIDS 20 years ago, on April 8, 1990, a few months prior to his intended enrollment at IU Bloomington.
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Indiana University will host a public event honoring the 20th anniversary of Ryan White's death and the profound influence the Indiana teenager had in the area of HIV/AIDS awareness. This event will feature White's mother, Jeanne White Ginder, who has been a tireless and effective spokesperson for AIDS education and the rights of people with HIV/AIDS.
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C. Everett Koop, M.D., the federal government's chief spokesman regarding AIDS while serving as U.S. Surgeon General in the 1980s, has been presented the 2010 Ryan White Distinguished Leadership Award by the Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention at Indiana University's School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation.
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When people say they "had sex," what transpired is anyone's guess. A new study from the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University found that no uniform consensus existed when a representative sample of 18- to 96-year-olds was asked what the term meant to them.
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