I couldn't care less if the guy I'm guarding has HIV. I'm going to slam him anyway.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I have a lot of friends who are infected with HIV, and you wanna protect them... To increase the awareness of it and to find a cure for it, the human lives we would save would be a really awesome thing. You just have to involve yourself as much as you can.
I'm not cured, but the HIV is asleep deep in my body.
Do we care about these people that are HIV-positive whose lives have been ruined? Those are the people I'm the most concerned about. Every night I think about this.
Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.
I tell you, it's funny because the only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.
The challenges surrounding HIV and AIDS are getting more complex and mature, and we just can't stick our heads in the sand and say 'it can't happen to me.'
I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it.
Now I walk around with my head down, trying to hide, thinking that everybody knows that I inflicted people with HIV, because that is all they are going to read.
The important thing is this Just because I'm doing well doesn't mean that they're going to do well if they get HIV. A lot of people have died since I have announced. This disease is not going anywhere.