Sheen's "coming out" prompted some criticism from observers who felt that his decision to hide his health status for so long brought us back to the early, stigma-filled days of HIV/AIDS in the 1980s.
But the actor deserves a lot of credit for his announcement. Unlike many celebrity discussions of health, which usually involve wildly inaccurate claims and medical misinformation, the former Two and a Half Men star was remarkably responsible in how he discussed the issue.
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