charlie has sex with him .
read : charlie sheen pens an open letter about his hiv - positive diagnosis sheen said he ’s trusted the diagnosis with people he thought he could confide in , but has paid out upwards of $ 10 million to keep the illness a secret .
back in 2000 , eight pills per day could cost a patient $ 10,000 per year , charlie sheen exposing sex partners to hiv is a crime exclusive charlie sheen could have some big legal problems with the revelation he has hiv , because in california it 's a crime for someone to have unprotected sex when that person knows he or she is infected with hiv .
if he did have unprotected sex , under california law , he could get 6 months in jail .
get the latest from today sign up for our newsletter updated source : & other stories by eun kyung kim charlie sheen revealed he is hiv positive tuesday in an exclusive today interview with matt lauer .
“ what people forget is that that 's money they 're taking from my children , ” he said about the “ shakedowns ” he the global goal to provide hiv treatment to 15 million people by the end of 2015 has been met — and the milestone even came ahead of schedule , unaids announced in a report released this week , highlighting enormous progress made in achieving one of the u.n. ’s millennium development goals .
the law is clear ... anyone with a communicable disease who " willfully exposes another person " is guilty .
“ we are on the way to a generation free of aids , ” declared u.n. secretary - general ban ki - moon , who was speaking at a global development summit in the ethiopian capital of addis ababa on tuesday .
he was later sentenced to 6 months in jail .