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Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, wife of tennis player Arthur Ashe, shares fond memories of her husband and explains how his untimely death and legacy affected the lives of many people.

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Tennis player and AIDS activist Arthur Ashe speaks for the last time to the public about his diagnoses, the future of treatment and the importance of HIV and AIDS public awareness education.

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Fans of tennis player Arthur Ashe pay their respects to the AIDS victim and share their reactions to his death on February 6, 1993.

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Ron Woodroof's doctor, Dr. Steven Pounders, discusses his first person account of Woodroof's diagnosis and struggle through AIDS. Ron Woodroof, a Texas electrician diagnosed with AIDS in 1986, began self-prescribing a mixture of drugs in order to hold off the disease. He also began selling these drugs to other AIDS victims in what came to be called the Dallas Buyers Club.

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Matthew McConaughey talks about what helped him to understand who Ron Woodroof in order to become him in the 2013 movie "Dallas Buyers Club", based off of Woodroof's life. Ron Woodroof was an electrician who was diagnosed with AIDS in 1986, and began taking a cocktail of drugs that he had researched to stave off the disease. He also began the Dallas Buyers Club, where he sold these drugs to other AIDS victims around the world.

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Author: Ben Nussbaum

On November 7, 1991, Magic Johnson announced that he had HIV. With that being said, he and other people who are diagnosed with HIV must waste no time in researching details like Medicare cost.

It was a shocking juxtaposition: Magic was charming, athletic, the always smiling ambassador of his sport. More than anything, people felt that they knew Magic. He was 32 years old and had been in the spotlight for over a decade. He was one of the sporting world’s best-known athletes and frequently pitched soft drinks and candy bars on television.

HIV/AIDS was terrifying, but also, more than anything, mysterious. It was the unknowable, uncontrollable disease, still metastasizing into a worldwide epidemic that would show no regard for who was straight or who was gay. By 1991 the height of the paranoia over AIDS was over, but misinformation was still rampant.

In fact, Magic had been part of the nation’s consciousness longer than AIDS. Magic was well-known to college basketball fans in 1978, his freshman year at Michigan State, and really burst onto the national stage in 1979 when he led the Spartans to an NCAA championship. The term AIDS was first introduced in the summer of 1982, by which point Magic had won two NBA championships.

On June 12, 1991, Magic Johnson played all 48 minutes in the deciding Game 5 of the NBA Finals. Magic’s Lakers lost to Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls in a defining moment in the golden age of the NBA, when stars like Larry Bird, Magic, and Jordan pushed the league to levels of popularity unseen before or since. The early 1990s were as close as basketball would ever get to being the national game.

On that June night almost 30 million people in the United States watched a performance that was vintage Magic. He scored 16 points, grabbed 11 rebounds, and had 20 assists, a stat line that spoke volumes about his utterly unique abilities on the court.

That same year, AIDS became the leading cause of death in the USA for men aged 25-44.

While AIDS continues to kill, the worst days of the epidemic are over. The UN estimates that the spread peaked in 1996, with 3.5 million new cases, and that deaths peaked in 2004, with 2.2 million people dying from the disease.

Indeed, the pendulem may have swung too far: Instead of worries about getting AIDS from toilet seats, kisses, or even living in the same house as someone with the disease, experts worry that gay men in particular are desensitized to the disease. Magic himself said, “I’m good for the virus, and bad for it. Good because I’m doing well, and that I can go out and try and raise the awareness level, get people to go get tested … but on the flip side of that, people see that I’m doing well, so they’ve kind of relaxed on HIV and AIDS.”

Indeed, AIDS is still a massive killer: Over 30 million people worldwide have the disease, and only about 10 percent of these receive any medical treatment.

As for Magic, exactly no one thought he would become a mega-successful businessman, part owner of the Dodgers, and a sought-after speaker. More to the point, no one thought he’d be alive at all.

The iconic Sports Illustrated cover following his announcement said it all — the simple image of Magic midway through a hook shot, with the word Magic and no other clutter. That cover was not the announcement of a retirement. It was a farewell. Thankfully, a wildly premature one.

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Andrew, a man from Birmingham, England, explains how he found out he was HIV positive and how he reacted to the diagnoses. In 1981 the World Health Organization recognized AIDS/HIV and World AIDS Day recognizes that milestone on December 1st every year.

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Jean-Jacques, a citizen of the Democratic Republic of Congo, explains what life is like with AIDS in his country. In 1981 the World Health Organization recognized AIDS/HIV and World AIDS Day recognizes that milestone on December 1st every year.

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Michael Jonas remembers how he found out that he had HIV, what he felt like after getting the news, and what his life is like living with the disease. World AIDS Day is celebrated on December 1st every year to commemorate the World Health Organization’s official recolonization of AIDS/HIV 1981.

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Timothy Brown, also known as The Berlin Patient, explains how he was cured of AIDS with the help of science and comments on the foundation he wants to create to help others find a cure. He also recalls how different people react to the fact that stem cells that cured him. In 1981 the World Health Organization recognized AIDS/HIV and World AIDS Day recognizes that milestone on December 1st every year.

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