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Celebrities and AIDS
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Famous faces of HIV and AIDS
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HIV and AIDS
What is HIV?
HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is a virus that attacks cells that help the body fight infection, making a person more vulnerable to other infections and diseases. It is spread by contact with certain bodily fluids of a person with HIV, most commonly during unprotected sex (sex without a condom or HIV medicine to prevent or treat HIV), or through sharing injection drug equipment.
How to treat it ?
By taking HIV medicine (called antiretroviral therapy or ART), people with HIV can live long and healthy lives and prevent transmitting HIV to their sexual partners. In addition, there are effective methods to prevent getting HIV through sex or drug use, including pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP).
What is AIDS?
AIDS is a set of symptoms (or syndrome as opposed to a virus) caused by HIV. It is not possible to get AIDS without being infected by HIV.
- AIDS stands for acquired immune deficiency syndrome; it’s also called advanced HIV infection or late-stage HIV.
- AIDS is a set of symptoms and illnesses that develop as a result of advanced HIV infection which has destroyed the immune system.
Fewer people develop AIDS now because treatment for HIV means that more people are staying well.
"Charlie Sheen effect."
When Sheen announced in November he had been hiding his HIV-positive status for years, media coverage and public interest on the star and the topic of HIV exploded.
Researchers from San Diego State University's School of Public Health ran an analysis of media and Internet searches after Sheen's announced on November 17 that he has HIV. They found that media coverage of HIV on the day of Sheen's disclosure ranked in the top 1% compared with the last seven years. It followed years of declining media coverage of HIV -- from 67 stories per 1,000 in 2004 to 12 stories per 1,000 in 2015.
Charlie Sheen
A new study published in the journal Prevention Science quantifies what researchers call the "Charlie Sheen effect:" sales of at-home HIV testing kits nearly doubled the week Sheen disclosed his diagnosis.
Jon-Patrick Allem, research scientist with the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, said in a release. "It is easy to imagine that a single individual, like Sheen, disclosing his HIV status may be more compelling and motivating for people than an unnamed mass of individuals or a lecture from public health leaders."
Freddie Mercury
FREDDIE MERCURY
Freddie Mercury was the iconic lead singer of one of the biggest bands in the world.
But on November 24, 1991, the 45-year-old lost his battle against AIDS, which he had been battling in private for months.
Freddie only revealed his condition 24 hours before he died but he had been fighting HIV since his diagnosis in the 1980s.
Those closest to him were aware of his AIDS battle and did everything they could to respect his wishes and keep it a secret.
Freddie's fans were devastated by his death, mourning the "greatest frontman to have ever lived".
Freddie said one day before his death :
the remaining members of Queen and other musicians raised millions for AIDS research in Mercury’s memory, organizing tribute concerts and establishing charities.
“I hope that everyone will join with me, my doctors and all those worldwide in the fight against this terrible disease.”
The Mercury Phoenix Trust is a charity organization that fights HIV/AIDS worldwide. After the death of Queen singer Freddie Mercury from AIDS the remaining members of the band and Jim Beach, their manager, organized The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for AIDS Awareness, the proceeds of which were used to launch The Mercury Phoenix Trust. The organization has been active ever since.
Awareness
In movie about musician and his band "Bohemian Rhapsody"
movie "Bohemian Rhapsody" tell a story of the legendary British rock band Queen and lead singer Freddie Mercury. In this movie we can found a plot about the musician sickness. We can found a scene dedicated to AIDS. Blockbuster like that is a good way of spreading awareness about this illness.
Bohemian Rhapsody
ANTHONY PERKINS
Anthony Perkins
Anthony Perkins was an American actor and singer. He is the best known for his role in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho from 1960s and Murder on the Orient Express from 1974, the film based on Agata Christie's novel. He was diagnosed with HIV around 1990. During his life, especially before he turned 30, he had a lot of homosexual relationships and intercourses with the most popular American celebrities. In New York, he was well-known for visiting city's best gay stores. Eventually, he married a woman with whom he had two sons. After being tested postitive, he did not speak publicly about his illness. He died on 1992 because of AIDS related pneumonia.
Rock Hudson
ROCK HUDSON
Hudson, born Leroy Harold Scherer Jr., on November 17, 1925, in Winnetka, Illinois, was a Hollywood heartthrob and icon, whose career in movies and TV spanned nearly three decades.
With leading-man good looks, Hudson starred in numerous dramas and romantic comedies in the 1950s and 60s, including Magnificent Obsession, Giant and Pillow Talk. In the 1970s, he found success on the small screen with such series as McMillan and Wife.
To protect his macho image, Hudson’s off-screen life as a gay man was kept secret from the public.
"I am not happy that I am sick. I am not happy that I have AIDS. But if that is helping others, I can at least know that my own misfortune has had some positive worth."
On October 2, 1985 Rock Hudson became the first major U.S. celebrity to die of complications from AIDS.
Hudson’s death raised public awareness of the epidemic, which until that time had been ignored by many in the mainstream as a “gay plague.”
The fact that Hudson had AIDS, focused worldwide attention on the disease and helped change public perceptions of it.
“All That Heaven Allows: A Biography of Rock Hudson.”
Title
The author of the Hudson's biography, Mark Griffin, wrote in his book that Hudson before coming out and saying publicly that he might have AIDS, he had sent four letters to his ex-lovers.
He wrote:
“We have recently had sex together and I have been informed by my doctor that I may have AIDS. Please go to your doctor and have a check-up.”
Hudson sent the letters anonymously, in keeping with the actor’s lifelong fear about coming out as a gay man and his more recent fear about identifying himself as a famous movie star with AIDS, Griffin wrote.
Hudson
& President Reagan
The first cases of AIDS were reported in 1981 and the earliest victims were gay men.
As scientists and health care officials called for funding to combat the disease, they were largely ignored by President Ronald Reagan and his administration.
Rock Hudson was a friend of Reagan’s and his death was said to have changed the president’s view of the disease.
However, Reagan was criticized for not addressing the issue of AIDS in a major public speech until 1987; by that time, more than 20,000 Americans had already died of the disease and it had spread to over 100 countries.
changing
awareness
After Hudson’s death, Congress allocated $221 million to find a cure for AIDS, and donations to AIDS charities skyrocketed.
Hudson left $250,000 in his will to help set up the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR).
WHO WAS RYAN WHITE?
Who was Ryan White?
Not everybody caught HIV/AIDS because of having sexual intercourse with someone positive or using the same needles while doing drugs. Ryan White was an American teenager from Indiana who was infected AIDS by blood transfusion. At that time, he was only thirteen years old. Doctors were not optimistic - Ryan was supposed to live only 6 months after the diagnose. However, he lived five more years. He became famous for fighting with AIDS discrimination in his home state. He really wanted to go back to school and gained national attention because the school would not have let him. With his mom, he raised his peers awareness about the disease; how to protect yourself, the possible ways of getting HIV. His face shortly became a symbol of fighting AIDS. Ryan White died shortly before his high school graduation and did not see the Congress passing the legislation bearing his name.