Magic Johnson looks great...
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Correct, he just had the virus. In those days though, we really thought it was a death sentence.
He said in an interview last year that he no longer has any evidence of HIV in his body. It's pretty remarkable.
Not sure how old you are but when AIDS was new nobody had any idea what it was and it was most certainly a death sentence. When Magic "got AIDS" everyone thought he would be dead inside of 5 years.
Meds have been around for a while for people to do really well with HIV. But they are expensive and not well covered by insurance or government programs when he was first diagnosed - something that shouldn't be a problem for him. The other problem is compliance. HIV mutates A LOT. That's a big part of the reason why there isn't a vaccine. People are not good with any meds they have to take everyday forever - not just HIV meds. Early HIV meds often required multiple doses per day. Miss a BP med once or twice a week and it's not as big a deal. Do that with HIV meds and it's eventually going to mutate and your regimen might not be effective anymore. I would assume he's been very compliant from the start.
A certain small percentage of people have mutations in the receptors that HIV uses to access to your cells that inhibits entry of the virus. It provides some degree of natural resistance to the virus. He probably is one of them. When coupled with modern HIV drugs, probably why he is virtually HIV free at this point
Things have evolved so much that the HIV virus is now used in gene therapy trials. I think sickle cell anemia is one disease they are experimenting with. They are taking the inflicted person cells and correcting the gene sequence and bc the HIV virus is so great at seeking out and entering other cells that they are removing the harmful part of the virus and inserting the corrected cells into the virus and once introduced back into the body the HIV virus attaches to the patients cells and is then able to copy the corrected sequences into the rest of their cells. If the trials work it'll be a game changer for a whole host of diseases.
He is HIV positive. He did not have AIDS. If you’d learn about the condition you’d know.
Why does he need to learn about the condition? It's very hard to catch outside of close "personal" contact or sharing blood. Should he learn about Ebola or the Spanish Flu? Should we all be doctors?
My wife works in a hospital in the lab..... there are a lot more HIV positive people around than you would think (especially college students and people in their 20’s and 30’s) and it is on the rise....
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