Editing Greg Louganis (section)

===HIV status and head injury===
Six months before the 1988 Seoul Olympics, Louganis was diagnosed with HIV and started [[Antiviral drug#Antiretroviral therapy as HIV prevention|antiretrovirals]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Onion |first=Amanda |title=How Greg Louganis' Olympic Diving Accident Forced a Conversation About AIDS |url=https://www.history.com/news/greg-louganis-diving-accident-aids |access-date=September 30, 2021 |website=HISTORY |date=June 10, 2021 |language=en}}</ref> After Louganis came out publicly as HIV-positive in 1995, people in and out of the international diving community began to question Louganis's decision not to disclose his HIV status at the time of his head injury during the 1988 Olympics, given that he had bled into a pool that others then dove into. Louganis has stated that, during the ordeal, he was "paralyzed with fear" that he would infect another competitor or the doctor who treated him. Ultimately, no one else was infected.<ref name="public glory" /> John Ward, chief of HIV-AIDS surveillance at the U.S. [[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]], noted that the incident posed no risk to others because any blood was highly diluted by the pool water and "[[chlorine]] kills HIV".<ref name="newsweek.com">[http://www.newsweek.com/risk-poolthe-dangers-are-field-180768 "The Risk Pool: The Dangers Are Off The Field", authored by Sharon Begley, ''Newsweek'', 5 March 1995]</ref> Since skin is an effective barrier to HIV, the only way the virus could enter would be through an open wound; "If the virus just touches the skin, it is unheard of for it to cause infection: the skin has no receptors to bind HIV," explained the [[National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases]]' [[Anthony Fauci]] at the time.<ref name="newsweek.com" />