Huckabee Accused Of Reneging On Promise To Meet AIDS Activists [View All]

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Jeanne White-Ginder, the mother of Ryan White, said Tuesday that Gov. Mike Huckabee is reneging on his commitment to meet with her and other AIDS activists over 15-year-old comments that AIDS patients should have been isolated.

Ryan White was an Indiana teenager whose life-ending battle with AIDS in the 1980s engrossed the nation.

After the old comments resurfaced during the presidential election campaign White-Ginder said she was infuriated.

"It's very important to me that we don't live in the darkness when people thought AIDS was transmitted through casual contact, such as by kissing, tears, sweat and saliva," White-Ginder told the Associated Press last month. "We have to treat this disease like a disease, and like Ryan always said, not like a dirty word."