The first African American selected for the Davis Cup, Arthur Ashe, learned that he was HIV positive in 1988, presumably due to an earlier blood transfusion. Ashe came forward as an HIV patient and created the Arthur Ashe Foundation for the Defeat of AIDS. He died in 1993.
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