what happened to jenny in forrest gump

In the movie Forrest Gump, Jenny dies from an unspecified illness. However, in a 2019 interview, screenwriter Eric Roth confirmed that Jenny died from AIDS. In the film, Jenny tells Forrest that she has "some kind of virus" and that she is very sick and will likely not survive. The exact cause of her illness is not made clear in the movie, but it is widely accepted that she died from AIDS.