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Famous person living with hiv.
In a statement released shortly before his death in september 1992 he said.
Aids is a pandemic.
More than 1 million americans are living with human immunodeficiency virus hiv yet about 15 percent aren t aware that they have the condition.
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.
Here s a rundown of some of the most famous people living with hiv both today and in years past.
Tragically many famous people have died from aids but not everyone with hiv goes on to develop that disease hiv which is transferred through bodily fluids and infects vital t cells leads to the failure of the immune system allowing for other conditions like cancer and pneumonia to thrive.
Which provides meals for homebound people with hiv.
While there s still no cure for hiv it s highly manageable with antiretroviral therapy.
Hiv is a virus that weakens a person s immune system by destroying cd4 cells a type of white blood cell.
Human immunodeficiency virus better known as hiv is the virus that causes aids.
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