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On Tuesday, Charlie Sheen appeared on Today to reveal that he is HIV-positive. The 50-year-old actor told host Matt Lauer he wasn’t sure when he contracted the virus, but that he was diagnosed roughly four years ago.
“It’s a hard three letters to absorb. It’s a turning point in one’s life,” Sheen said on Today. “I have a responsibility now to better myself and to help a lot of other people, and hopefully with what we’re doing today others will come forward and say, ‘Thanks, Charlie.'”
Though he’s perhaps the most high-profile individual to go public with his HIV status in recent years, Sheen is just one of an estimated 36.9 million people globally who were HIV-positive at the end of 2014. While the disease is still a major problem in many parts of the world — primarily Sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Asia — there have been…
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