It would be hard to talk about celebrities living with hiv and not bring up magic johnson.
American celebrities living with hiv.
How celebrities live openly with the disease and make a difference.
That s why many hiv positive celebrities like.
Aids is a pandemic.
Magic johnson basketball.
As wagstaff s heir he became a supporter of the american foundation for aids research.
In 2007 an estimated 33 2 million people lived with the disease worldwide and it killed an estimated 2 1 million people including 330 000 children.
Several celebrities live with hiv or aids and some have died of the disease.
These 10 celebrities are also living with hiv.
When johnson one of basketball s greatest players came out as living with hiv in 1991.
More than 1 million americans are living with human immunodeficiency virus hiv yet about 15 percent aren t aware that they have the condition.
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Significant progress has been made in response to hiv aids since 1988 and unaids estimates that three in four people living with hiv know their status.
This is a categorized alphabetical list of people who are known to have been infected with the human immunodeficiency virus hiv the pathogen that causes aids including those who have died.
American actor and comedian jim j.
Out of the 1 2 million americans affected by the virus at least 10 of them are also living in the hollywood spotlight.
Bullock discovered his hiv status in 1985 and has been living with the virus ever since.
