Because people did not know how AIDS was transmitted. Magic Johnson was one of the best ever basketball players that has ever played and he got diagnosed with HIV and his still alive today.
Rock Hudson was a famous movie star that died of AIDS after a 15th month battle with the disease, he was 59 years of age, he was a bisexual person.
Ryan White was also one of the people who got AIDS that was 13 years old. Ryan White got mistreated by everyone in the school and he got kicked out of school.
Eazy-E was a famous rapper who contracted AIDS in the early 1990s. He was considered to be one of the inventors of rap.
Eazy-E when he was a rapper Rock Hudson when he was a movie star Magic Johnson, when he played for the lakers.