Kathy Ireland Opens Up About Elizabeth Taylor’s Safe House For HIV Patients
In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Ms Ireland said: ‘Talk about fearless, at her home in Bel-Air.
A friend of the late Elizabeth Taylor has claimed the actress opened her house to AIDS victims and supplied them with unapproved medication.
“She would go to jail for it. Elizabeth and fear are not in the same sentence”. She founded the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation in 1991, which has given tens of millions of dollars to organizations around the world.
The drug ring he created in the 1980s was known as the Dallas Buyers Club.
‘She would sell jewelry, there were transfers of money – sometimes in a paper bag, ‘ Ireland says.
In a bid to curb the spread of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in Africa, the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA) and World Bank have joined forces to eliminate the disease.
“Liz was basically running a West-Coast version of the Dallas Buyers” Club, the famed pharmaceutical network run by Ron Woodroof and immortalized in the 2013 movie of the same name.
‘She thought she might get (caught) but she wasn’t afraid.
He said people will be advised on ways to cope should it be confirmed that they are HIV positive and they will be able to ask questions.
Helping to up the profile of World AIDS day on Tuesday were prominent local officials, including former governor and current U.S. Congressional candidate Charlie Crist.
According to the Center of Disease Control and Prevention, about 1,218,400 people aged 13 and older are infected with the virus, including 156,300 who are unaware they have the virus.
In places such as The T&D Region, AIDS and the HIV infection are serious health problems among heterosexual as well as homosexual adults.
“The grant allows us to bring together labs that are working independently into a much more cohesive whole”, said Mike McCune, a UCSF professor and project leader on the research team. So when Elizabeth Taylor chose to use her fame in the early 1990s to advocate for AIDS victims-famously calling out President George H.W. Bush for ignoring the pandemic (“In fact, I’m not even sure if he knows how to spell “AIDS”)-her task seemed downright daunting and her courage huge.