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    Re: Charlie Sheen to announce he is HIV positive

    Quote Originally Posted by Redsfaithful View Post
    How much money does he have? It almost sounds like $10 million is just a nuisance.

    I may be wrong but I think I read an article awhile back that with the new drug treatments HIV essentially completely disappears and can't be transmitted. I know it's pretty amazing what they have been able to do with the disease.
    He's worth 125 million bucks

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    Re: Charlie Sheen to announce he is HIV positive

    They are making huge strides every month, but the costs to the patient are still qute high.
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    Re: Charlie Sheen to announce he is HIV positive

    Quote Originally Posted by Redsfaithful View Post
    How much money does he have? It almost sounds like $10 million is just a nuisance.

    I may be wrong but I think I read an article awhile back that with the new drug treatments HIV essentially completely disappears and can't be transmitted. I know it's pretty amazing what they have been able to do with the disease.
    He made nearly $2M an episode in his final season of doing Two and a Half Men. Not sure exactly how much of his net worth is in cash, but I'm sure he's got tons of it.

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    Re: Charlie Sheen to announce he is HIV positive

    Quote Originally Posted by westofyou View Post
    He's worth 125 million bucks
    TV money is huge I guess.
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    Re: Charlie Sheen to announce he is HIV positive

    Quote Originally Posted by Redsfaithful View Post

    I may be wrong but I think I read an article awhile back that with the new drug treatments HIV essentially completely disappears and can't be transmitted. I know it's pretty amazing what they have been able to do with the disease.
    This actually isn't true. While we are making great strides, current literature, specifically the HPTN 052 study, showed that over the 10 year course of the study, antiretroviral therapy reduces tranmission rates by 93% when the viral load has reached an undetectable level. The results were extremely encouraging, but we are still short of having ART remove the risk of transmitting the virus.

    An undetectable viral load is defined as less than 50 copies of the virus per mL of blood, so there is still virus circulating. Viral loads can also fluctuate for a number of reasons, so without testing each day, there's no way to know that one is actually still at an undetectable level.

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    Re: Charlie Sheen to announce he is HIV positive

    Quote Originally Posted by Sea Ray View Post
    I didn't see the whole interview but what struck me is that he made it clear that it's still safe to have sex with him as long as he wears protection. He doesn't want HIV to curb his wild sex life. Amusing
    That's the Charlie Sheen we all know. It's all about me. He's been on a self-destructive path for many years.

    Whenever I saw this guy, over the last 2-3 years, he didn't look good - thinner, more frail looking - and I wondered if something was going on with him.

    One side of me feels sadness/sympathy for him, because of this disease... but the other side feels that if you're going to live such a permissive life style - and Charlie was the "wild one" (partying, prostitutes, porn stars) - then you're placing yourself at high risk. It simply goes with the territory.
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    Re: Charlie Sheen to announce he is HIV positive

    Quote Originally Posted by GAC View Post
    Whenever I saw this guy, over the last 2-3 years, he didn't look good - thinner, more frail looking - and I wondered if something was going on with him.
    Yeah, he looks awful in his recent pix. At 50, he's not a kid anymore, but it doesn't look like normal progressive aging.

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    Re: Charlie Sheen to announce he is HIV positive

    Quote Originally Posted by Rojo View Post
    Yeah, he looks awful in his recent pix. At 50, he's not a kid anymore, but it doesn't look like normal progressive aging.
    Drugs are bad for you.

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    Re: Charlie Sheen to announce he is HIV positive

    Quote Originally Posted by dougdirt View Post
    Drugs are bad for you.
    Abuse of drugs is what's bad for you, drugs themselves are independent of being termed "bad" in one felled swoop.

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    Re: Charlie Sheen to announce he is HIV positive

    He put his arm around me… does that mean I am HIV positive?

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    Re: Charlie Sheen to announce he is HIV positive

    Most are probably aware, but he is a big time Reds fan. He was on the FSN broadcast within the past few years and knew his stuff.

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    Re: Charlie Sheen to announce he is HIV positive

    Quote Originally Posted by Patrick Bateman View Post
    He put his arm around me… does that mean I am HIV positive?
    Yes.

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    Re: Charlie Sheen to announce he is HIV positive

    Quote Originally Posted by Patrick Bateman View Post
    He put his arm around me
    While doing what exactly?

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    Re: Charlie Sheen to announce he is HIV positive

    Quote Originally Posted by kaldaniels View Post
    Most are probably aware, but he is a big time Reds fan.
    So that compounds his problems even worse!
    "In my day you had musicians who experimented with drugs. Now it's druggies experimenting with music" - Alfred G Clark (circa 1972)

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    Re: Charlie Sheen to announce he is HIV positive

    Quote Originally Posted by GAC View Post
    So that compounds his problems even worse!
    Yep. No treatment for that disease.


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