'Magic' Johnson introduces PSAs for AIDS awareness

LOS ANGELES  -- Former NBA player Earvin "Magic" Johnson Monday introduced a pair of public service announcements targeted at minority communities and encouraging people to be tested for HIV and AIDS.

Earvin 'Magic' Johnson, Cookie Johnson and Spike Lee at the filming of Abbott and the Magic Johnson Foundation's "I Stand With Magic - Campaign to End Black HIV/AIDS "public service announcement campaign, a program aimed at helping prevent HIV infection in the minority communities. [Agencies]

The PSAs were directed by Oscar-nominated director Spike Lee and will be posted on the Internet video-sharing site YouTube and on Abbott.com, the website of the Illinois-based Abbott Laboratories medical research firm.