Magic Johnson considers in Brazil that he is an HIV survivor. The legend of the National Basketball Association (NBA), the main basketball league in the United States, Earvin (Magic) Johnson Jr., considered that he is blessed for surviving the diagnosis of HIV, contracted at the peak of his career. “It was (the diagnosis) to be a death sentence. And it was a very difficult period because I didn’t know what could happen,” the 65-year-old businessman said to the program Negritudes, on TV Globo’s Fantásticos. He acknowledged that when he got sick, the priority was his wife, Cookie, who was pregnant with their son, E-Jay. “I needed to make sure they were okay. It was only later that I went to take care of myself. At that time, there was only one remedy: AZT. So today I can say I have been blessed. I look back and see how many people have died since I assumed I had the disease,” he reasoned.
