Big names raise awareness hike donations and inspire more people to seek care.
American celebrities living with hiv.
Even though he lost his long term partner john casey to aids related complications in 1996 bullock still maintains a healthy life thanks to antiretroviral drugs.
These 10 celebrities are also living with hiv.
Out of the 1 2 million americans affected by the virus at least 10 of them are also living in the hollywood spotlight.
American actor and comedian jim j.
Bullock discovered his hiv status in 1985 and has been living with the virus ever since.
How celebrities live openly with the disease and make a difference.
Died of aids in 1987.
That s why many hiv positive celebrities like.
Magic johnson basketball.
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.
It would be hard to talk about celebrities living with hiv and not bring up magic johnson.
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.
Several celebrities live with hiv or aids and some have died of the disease.
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.
Aids is a pandemic.
As wagstaff s heir he became a supporter of the american foundation for aids research.
