Magic Johnson
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- mg330
I read a fascinating article in GQ a couple years back that posited that he didn't ever even have HIV, but was "chosen" as a figurehead to connect with and educate the black population about AIDS. Anyone else ever heard this?
- Boz0
here's what wikipedia says:
"Despite the success of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in controlling HIV infection and reducing HIV-associated mortality, current drug regimens are unable to completely eradicate HIV infection. Many people on HAART achieve suppression of HIV to levels below the limit of detection of standard clinical assays for many years. However, upon withdrawal of HAART, HIV viral loads rebound quickly with a concomitant decline in CD4+ T-Cells, which, in most cases, without a resumption of treatment, leads to AIDS.
Without treatment, the net median survival time after infection with HIV is estimated to be 9 to 11 years, depending on the HIV subtype,[155] and the median survival rate after diagnosis of AIDS in resource-limited settings where treatment is not available ranges between 6 and 19 months, depending on the study.[156] In areas where it is widely available, the development of HAART as effective therapy for HIV infection and AIDS reduced the death rate from this disease by 80%, and raised the life expectancy for a newly diagnosed HIV-infected person to 20–50 years.[157][158]"
Now, considering he was diagnosed 20 years ago, he must be either very lucky or something.
- scarabin0
i dunno, but it creeps me out that no matter where i look in my gym my gaze falls on ten different giant photos of his ugly mug grinning back at me
- nb0
"Without treatment, the net median survival time after infection with HIV is estimated to be 9 to 11 years"
That's median, meaning middle. So, without treatment someone could live much longer. Plus he has treatment. Having money helps.
Also, Kanye was rapping about this more than 5 years ago. Come on, man. Old news.
- wagshaft0
pills. loads of pills.
- wagshaft0
and a sweet finger roll helps
- aldebaran0
money
- GeorgesII0
money
- Boz0
Not that I want him dead or anything of sorts.. I just wonder how he's still alive.. there's either a cure or something, cause I don't know anyone who survived that for a few years, little less for 15 years.
- dbloc0
money
- horton0
"Johnson retired abruptly in 1991 after announcing that he had contracted the HIV virus"
20 years ago... we're getting old.
- Boz0
I mean I don't get it.. money what?
Money as in there's a cure and only those with huge money can buy it.. or
Money as in constantly getting medication that keeps him alive..
In the other case I don't see how he would look so great every time I see him on TV or somewhere public.. if he was sucking up every experimental drug available he would look like shit and his body would give up after all those chemicals..
- constant pills keeping the HIV from becoming full blown AIDShorton
- CALLES0
uhhh Thanks for the reminding me!
- Boz0
or he just lied to retire from basketball?
- abettertomorrow0
Maybe you should contact Magic Johnson and ask
- horton0
"To prevent his HIV infection from becoming AIDS, Johnson takes a daily combination of drugs.[94] He has advertised GlaxoSmithKline's drugs,[95] and partnered with Abbott Laboratories to publicize the fight against AIDS in African American communities.[94]"
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- in other words, he's sponsored by GlaxoSmithKline™horton
- he is their celebrity test subjectDodecahedron
- [94]moldero