1. Magic Johnson- Johnson is a retired American professional basketball player and is currently the president of basketball operations of the Los Angeles Lakers of the NBA. On the court, Johnson played point guard for the Lakers for 13 seasons. He was tested with a physical, and the results were that he had HIV. Magic Johnson tested positive for HIV is 1991. On November 7, 1991, he officially announced that he was going be retiring due to his condition.
2. Charlie Sheen is a well known actor, starring in movies such as Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Two and a Half Men, and The Arrival. Charlie Sheen told Matt Lauer on NBC, "I'm here to admit that I am in fact HIV-positive," "And I have to put a stop to this onslaught, this barrage of attacks and of sub-truths and very harmful and mercurial stories that are about the [alleged] threatening the health of so many others, which couldn't be farther from the truth." 4. Liberace- is an American pianist, actor and singer. Liberace was known for having careless sex with many people, and he knowingly infected his young lovers with AIDS and he even infected his live-in love of five years, Scott Thorson, and he claims that at least three of Liberace's died from the disease. 5. Freddie Mercury- was a British singer, songwriter and record producer, Mercury was known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Queen. Freddie Mercury could still be alive today if HIV drugs had been available few months sooner, which for many fans of his, like myself, is a painful thing to imagine. Mercury had lost most of his foot from the HIV condition.
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