did magic johnson have aids
Johnson himself thought an HIV diagnosis was a death sentence. 'Oh, man, I am going to die. I think it's over,' he remembers telling the doctor who gave him the news, according to PBS. At the time of Johnson's announcement, AIDS had become the No. 1 cause of death for men between the ages of 25 and 44. By the end of that year, nearly 258,000 people had been diagnosed with AIDS in the United States, and over 157,000 people had died from the disease.