it Was an open secret. the Freddie Mercury appeared in the video clip, These are the days of our lives with the cheeks slightly sunken in and thinner than usual. Rumors ran like wildfire in the 1991, the same year in which Queen released the last album with their lead singer, “Innuendo”. With the exception of his closest friends, among which included the soprano Montserrat Caballé, no one knew it officially.
Freddie Mercury confirmed that he had aids a day before his death
In 1989, the worst omens for Freddie Mercury had become a reality. The iconic leader of Queen had decided to take the test of the HIV after two ex-lovers die of aids. When he got the news, the british singer dropped still more his rare appearances. On 23 November 1991, Freddie Mercury issued a press release confirming the rumors. The next day, today twenty-five years, the leader of Queen, died surrounded by his loved ones.
Responding to the information and guesses about me have appeared in the press from two weeks ago, I confirm that I have given you test positive for the virus and that I have aids.
it Is time that my friends and my fans around the world know the truth, and I want everyone to join me, my doctors and all those who suffer from this terrible disease to fight against it.
“he Has taken her illness with a stoicism and fortitude are very large because Freddie has always been a person very carefree, very free and in the music also. And also what has been in your way of bringing the disease”, said his friend and also a singer Montserrat Caballé. The Spanish soprano appeared in the report that Weekly Report published a few days after his death.
aids has affected nearly 80 million people around the world. The leader of Queen was perhaps the face more visible
By that time, according to data offered by the program of RTVE, between eight and ten million people had been infected with HIV. After twenty-five years, in accordance with the United Nations, aids has affected almost 80 million individuals all over the world. Freddie Mercury was perhaps the face most visible of a disease is stigmatizing even to this day.
The story of Weekly Report he was referring to his “busy life ” and wild” and to your “sexual promiscuity”. The programme broadcast by the public television picked up a course comment from the leader of Queen, where he would come to saying that he had “more lovers than Liz Taylor”.
we will Never know if the sentence was real, given the brief and sporadic public appearances that Mercury did and what little he loved to do interviews. The stigma, however, continues to this day, as evidenced by the problems that sometimes suffer gay men to donate blood.
The battle against HIV has not finished
unfortunately, we are still far from overcoming the aids. Since the seventies, when the HIV has spread throughout the world causing more than 35 million fatalities, the research has succeeded in identifying the causative agent and has developed methods to diagnose and treat the disease. But it has not been enough. “No way, we won the battle to HIV,” alert Roger Walls, group leader of Genomic Microbial Aids Research Institute IrsiCaixa.
“The society knows very little about HIV. It is considered aids as a disease vintage because they see it very far away”, explains the scientist Roger Walls
“The society knows very little of HIV. It is considered aids as a disease vintage because they see so very far,” says the researcher, Hypertext. The profiles of people infected vary widely depending on the region of the planet in which we find ourselves, and fashions such as the session chemsex concerned about the risks of disinhibition and lack of protection. In addition, the fact that the therapies are not accessible to 100% of patients is a very serious problem. “If we can make treatment accessible to all those affected, we would end up with the epidemic in only a few decades,” says Walls. In addition, the emergence of strains of drug-resistant virus is of concern to the scientific community.
Twenty-five years after the death of Freddie Mercury, yet much remains to be done. Improve the effectiveness of prevention campaigns, sexual, promote early diagnosis and provide therapies to all those who need it are critical challenges. The virus that killed the leader of Queen, weakening your immune system as a result of aids which he developed, is still present in the society. I hope that some day, as requested by Mercury in its press release, the union make the force and the medicine to gain HIV. And is that, to paraphrase one of his lyrics more well-known, the show (life) must go on.
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