Desc: Poster Child: Directed by Ryan Gielen, Patrick James Lynch. In 2007 USA Today's 25th anniversary issue ranked the 25 most influential people on earth since the paper's founding in 1982. Ryan White was listed in the Top 10, between Pope John Paul II and the protestor who stood in front of the tank in Tiananmen Square. Poster Child is the story of how, after contracting HIV/AIDS at age 14 through his tainted hemophilia medication, Ryan White took on his school board, the corporate media complex, and even the president of the United States, Ronald Reagan, in his quest to convince the world to fight the disease, not the person afflicted by it, and in so doing changed the world.