Spanish actor, director and screenwriter Eduardo Casanova, 34, announced Thursday that he has HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), and explained that he is breaking “this unpleasant and painful silence after so many years”.
“Despite the fear and uncertainty, today I feel deeply happy,” Casanova said in a message posted on social networks, because “dignity should be the way in which all people with HIV” could go public.
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“Today I break this unpleasant and painful silence after MANY, MANY years. A silence that so many of us people with HIV keep and suffer. I do it WHEN I WANT TO. WHEN I CAN. I DO IT FOR ME, but I wish this could help more people. I do it my way, through film, which is my way of communicating,” wrote Eduardo Casanova on Instagram.
“But most of all I do it WITH DIGNITY. Dignity should be the way all people with HIV can come out,” he added in his message.
Eduardo Casanova indicated that nearly 80% of people with HIV have not shared with almost anyone that they have the infection because it is a “stigma” that “condemns them to the systematic and most unjust rejection in the world”.
A silence that “many, many people” keep and suffer, and that he has wanted to break when he wanted to and was able to.
“I do it for me, but I wish this could help more people. I do it my way, through film, which is my way of communicating,” he says, referring to a documentary film on the same subject to be released in 2026.
The message on Instagram by Eduardo Casanova, who on December 1 premiered ‘Silencio’, a miniseries with the HIV pandemic as a backdrop, received a wave of support in networks.
Colleagues such as Leticia Dolera, Hugo Silva, Raquel Meroño and Miguel Diosdado expressed their affection for Casanova.
The actor became known in the character of Fidel in the Spanish television series ‘Aida’ and since then has played, written or directed numerous film and television titles.
With information from EFE
