Health Resources & Services Administration
Legacy Photography
The multimedia presentation entitled “A Legacy of Care” is prepared for the opening plenary of the August 2010 Ryan White All-Grantee Meeting, the documentary is a compilation of conversations with more than three dozen HIV/AIDS providers, administrators, and community advocates, as they recollect the early years of the epidemic, the historic effort to garner support for a Federal Government-sponsored program involving States, cities, and communities all across the country, and the untold challenges of building a unique model of care to meet the complex needs of people living with HIV/AIDS. These conversations are reinforced by archival photography covering the first appearance of the disease in the United States, the challenges and triumphs leading to passage of the Ryan White CARE Act, and the implementation of the Program over time. Archival images appear alongside recent photographs documenting the interactions and relationships among Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program providers and clients nationwide. Specific information about the images and more extensive audiotaped interviews also appear on this portion of the Web site.
Dr. Jeffrey Wallach examining patient Al Bearden, New York City, 1991. © Thomas McGovern, from the book Bearing Witness (to AIDS)
Peta Church cares for Davis Kirby in a Hospice-style home in Columbus, Ohio, 1989. © Therese Frare
On January 31, 1989, activists from Stop AIDS Now or Else (SANOE) block the morning commute on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. © Rick Gerharter
Activist James Baggett and friends carry the coffin of fellow activist, Jon Greenberg, through the streets of New York City during a political funeral 1993... Read more
Activist James Baggett during an AIDS demonstration at New York City Hall, 1994. © Thomas McGovern, from the book Bearing Witness (to AIDS)
AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) demonstrates at the Food and Drug Administration in Washington, DC, 1988. © Donna Binder
Approximately 100 demonstrators protest on the steps of New York's City Hall as a City Council committee considered legislation to bar pupils and teachers ... Read more
Ryan White at home, 1985. © Jeanne White-Ginder private collection
(L-R) Jeanne White-Ginder, attorney Charles V. Vaughan, and Ryan White after a judge threw out a temporary injunction barring him from attending classes... Read more
Ryan White in the hallway of Hamilton Heights High School, 1987. © Taro Yamasaki/TIME & LIFE Images/Getty Images
Dr. Martin Kleiman examines Ryan White as his mother Jeanne White-Ginder looks on, 1990. © Taro Yamasaki/TIME & LIFE Images/Getty Images
Marchers at an AIDS demonstration in Washington, DC, 1992. © Thomas McGovern, from the book Bearing Witness (to AIDS)
The Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt displayed on the ellipse in front of the White House in Washington, D.C., October 1988... Read more
Randy Shilts in the San Francisco Chronicle newsroom, 1994. Randy Shilts, who died of AIDS in 1994, was a pioneering gay journalist and author of three books... Read more
Activists from ACT-UP/Golden Gate block the entrance to the Old Federal Building in San Francisco, demanding the FDA release Didanosine (ddI)... Read more
U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop in his office recording a public service announcement, 1983. From the National Library of Medicine
Members of AIDS Alliance carry a banner and ride in a motorized cable car up Market Street in San Francisco, California... Read more
The Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt displayed on the ellipse in front of the White House in Washington, D.C., Student AIDS activists marching in Washington, DC, 1985. © Andrew Kohan
(L-R) U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop confers with then Senators Arlen Specter (R-PA) and Orrin Hatch (R-UT) on the eve of his confirmation in 1981. ... Read more
Three early AIDS patients are sworn in before a House Governmental Relations subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill to discuss their experiences dealing with the disease... Read more
Jeanne White-Ginder meets with then Senator Robert Dole (R-KS) on Capitol Hill, 1990. Ms. White-Ginder traveled to Washington, DC just 2 weeks after her son Ryan’s death from AIDS... Read more
(L-R) Then Senators Orrin Hatch (R-UT) confers with Ted Kennedy (D-MA) at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, 1990... Read more
Representative Henry A. Waxman (D-CA) was among the earliest and strongest supporters of a Federal HIV/AIDS program.... Read more
Actor Paul Michael Glaser and his wife Elizabeth testifying in Washington before the House Budget Committee's Task Force on Pediatric AIDS, 1990... Read more
Senate Chamber, 1990. @ From the U.S. Senate Historical Office Collection
Participants in the 10th International AIDS Candlelight Memorial, also known as the AIDS Candlelight March, on San Francisco's Market Street, 1993... Read more
Bernice Casselle, a health education supervisor with the Philadelphia Department of Public Health, speaking to a group of women about HIV/AIDS, 1997... Read more
(R-L) Geoff Edholm, who died of AIDS in 1989, and lover Bruce Herman, 1988, in New York City. © Thomas McGovern, from the book Bearing Witness (to AIDS)
People living with HIV and AIDS hold hands during a group therapy session at Discipleship Outreach in Brooklyn, New York, 1992... Read more
Donna Martinez, an HIV-positive born-again Christian worshipping on Christmas Day, Brooklyn, New York, 1994... Read more
Staff hotline assistant William Neish answers questions at AIDS Project Los Angeles, 1996. © AP Photo/Kim Kulish
Volunteer Donna Nix and others give put "food bags" together at Nashville Cares in Nashville, Tennessee, 2002. Read more
After 50 hours of training, information specialists are ready to take calls at the National AIDS Hotline... Read more
Members of ACT UP protest during a session of the National Conference on Women & HIV being held at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, California, 1997... Read more
Friends consoling one another at the funeral of Jon Greenberg, New York City, 1993. © Thomas McGovern, from the book Bearing Witness (to AIDS)
Dr. Jeffrey Wallach consulting with medical staff at Cabrini Medical Center in New York, New York c. 1991. © Thomas McGovern private collection
Zidovudine (AZT), the first antiretroviral medication approved to fight HIV, 2005. © NDX Photos/Newscom. Read more
Phillip Coleman, living with AIDS, Brooklyn, New York, 1992. © Thomas McGovern, from the book Bearing Witness (to AIDS)
Anthony and Donna Martinez discovered they had AIDS after their four-month old daughter, Margaret, was diagnosed... Read more
Willie Sandoval was a former gang leader, addict, and prisoner. After being diagnosed with AIDS, he became an activist, doing outreach in his neighborhood of Sunset Park, Brooklyn... Read more
Verna Palmer, living with AIDS, and daughter Sheena, Bronx, New York, 1989. © Thomas McGovern, from the book Bearing Witness (to AIDS)
Mike St. Hilaire, living with AIDS in North Bangor, New York. At the time of diagnosis, Mike struggled to counter stigma and access HIV services in his small town. 1995... Read more
Peter Rodriguez holds his mother during a memorial service for his lover Paul, and best friend Jeff, both of whom had recently died from AIDS, New York City, 1991... Read more
Carmen Diaz, who is HIV-positive, watches over her six-week old baby boy Jomalier, who is being treated with AZT, 1997... Read more
Lawanda Bridges, an HIV-positive mother, talks with her four-year-old son Barrett at her Ensley, Alabama apartment, 2001... Read more
Dr. David Ho, an AIDS researcher famous for pioneering the use of protease inhibitors in treating HIV patients, 2009... Read more
Dr. Hedy Teppler (center, foreground) and her research team at Thomas Jefferson hospital in Philadelphia, PA. 1996... Read more
AIDS patient David Freeman with some of the 112 pills he was taking daily to fight the disease, 1997. © Randy Bazemore/Miami Herald/Newscom
Dr. Hedy Teppler (center, foreground) and her research team at Thomas Jefferson hospital in Philadelphia, PA. 1996... Read more
Tanya Strickland cries as she hugs nurse Karen Gold of the Children’s Hospital’s HIV program in Oakland, California, 1988... Read more
April Donahoo of Riverside, California, cries while sitting at the panel of the AIDS quilt that commemorates her father, Doyle Donahoo, in Pasadena, California, 1995... Read more
The AIDS quilt during its visit in Washington, DC, 1987. © Susan Steinkamp/CORBIS