• Actor Charlie Sheen is sued by former fiancee Scottine Ross (Brett Rossi) for negligence, physical abuse, and emotional distress.

Actor Charlie Sheen is sued by former fiancee Scottine Ross (Brett Rossi) for negligence, physical abuse, and emotional distress. (Photo : Getty Images/Jason Merritt )

Because he spends $4,000 a month on HIV medication, actor Charlie Sheen is seeking the development of lower-cost HIV drugs to make it affordable to all. He has made HIV education an advocacy after the "Three and a Half Men" star publicly admitted having the virus.

Since he has to take the expensive pill thrice a day, Sheen has so far spent $200,000 to battle HIV, reports PageSix. He says, "If anybody can fight this thing and discover a cure, it's me. I will exhaust every resource ... I will move forward until something's revealed," quotes National Enquirer, the first publication to report Sheen's ailment.

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He says his November interview with Matt Lauer on "Today" began his journey to fight HIV. His having the virus places the actor in a rare position to turn his HUV diagnosis into something positive by reaching the audience of interviewer Dylan Howard, adds Sheen.

However, educating the public would be his role by shining a light on the disease, while Sheen leaves the matter of searching for a cure to brilliant scientists.

WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 6: HIV-positive Shana Reynolds-Fairley tries to carefully account for all of her money as she nods in and out of the sleep brought on by her pain medication at Joseph's House August 6, 2013 in Washington, DC. Shana is on a strict pain management regiment because of the chronic pain caused by osteonecrosis, the rotting of the inside of her bones caused by the virus. Shana is a resident at Joseph's House, a hospice that provides nursing and support services to homeless men and women dying of AIDS and cancer. In 2006 Shana and her husband were diagnosed with HIV, most likely the result of the risky life her husband lived before they were married in 2001. According to the District of Columbia Department of Health, while the overall HIV infection rate in Washington declined from 2010 to 2012, the infection rate for heterosexual African American women in the District's poorest neighborhoods nearly doubled, from 6.3 percent to 12.1 percent, over the same time period. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
(Photo : Chip Somodevilla) WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 6: HIV-positive Shana Reynolds-Fairley tries to carefully account for all of her money as she nods in and out of the sleep brought on by her pain medication at Joseph's House August 6, 2013 in Washington, DC. Shana is on a strict pain management regiment because of the chronic pain caused by osteonecrosis, the rotting of the inside of her bones caused by the virus. Shana is a resident at Joseph's House, a hospice that provides nursing and support services to homeless men and women dying of AIDS and cancer. In 2006 Shana and her husband were diagnosed with HIV, most likely the result of the risky life her husband lived before they were married in 2001. According to the District of Columbia Department of Health, while the overall HIV infection rate in Washington declined from 2010 to 2012, the infection rate for heterosexual African American women in the District's poorest neighborhoods nearly doubled, from 6.3 percent to 12.1 percent, over the same time period. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Saying he is now sober, Sheen tells Howard he is grateful for all that he went through in life, making people laugh and seeing the world differently. "Now, maybe it's time to "change the world," quotes Sbeta. But the 50-year-old admits that when he first learned of the diagnosis, he was first angry and then went in denial and shock, although he did not reach the low point of contemplating suicide. However, he says those low emotions lasted only one day because the next day, he told his mother, "This disease picked the wrong guy."