 They relocated to South Roxana, Illinois, where the school district agreed to treat Jason as a regular student, and (despite some limited protests) the community reception was more accepting.Robertson died in 2003 at age 23, some time after he had decided to stop taking his medication for HIV because it had begun to worsen his hemophilia.The "Associated Press" story about his death described him as "a symbol of the fight against AIDS discrimination" who "helped other children with the virus overcome its stigma".