Actor Charlie Sheen says his health is dramatically improving after experimental HIV drug

Actor Charlie Sheen attends the 24th annual Elton John AIDS Foundation's Oscar viewing party. Photo / Getty Images

The Wall Street star went public with his HIV positive status in November last year, announcing that he had been diagnosed with the virus in 2011.



In January 2016, Sheen announced he had stopped taking the medication designed to prevent his condition progressing to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), the deadly phase of the disease, in favour of alternative medicine.

However, the star says he is now part of an American clinical trial that sees him receive an injection of PRO 140, an experimental HIV drug designed to prevent the virus infecting healthy cells, and as a result his health is improving.

"I'm actually involved in a FDA (America's Food and Drug Administration) trial where it's going to change the immediate landscape of HIV treatment," he told Britain's i newspaper.

"It's a company called CytoDyn and a treatment called PRO 140. And instead of taking the pills every day, it's one shot every week.

"So I go to my doctor and he administers that. I'm in my third week of that and I already feel amazing, because taking those pills every day, it's a bit toxic you know. This is quite the opposite, so we're really excited about the prospect of that."

New Zealand Herald