“Not all battles are behind us”, she said.
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Tuesday marked the 27th annual World AIDS Day, an worldwide event that celebrates efforts to prevent the spread of HIV and provides a way to support those who continue to suffer.
One of which, the Dallas Buyers’ Club, run by Ron Woodroof, inspired the 2013 film of the same name. Ireland didn’t cough up too many specific details, though she did note that “a lot of the work she did was illegal” and “she was saving lives”.
Kathy Ireland appeared on Entertainment Tonight together with Ricki Lake in honor of World AIDS Day, and made the astonishing claim that the late Taylor had used her home as an illegal base to share HIV medication with those in need.
Ireland talked about her mentor Elizabeth Taylor and her Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation.
In fact, HIV and AIDS were still deeply misunderstood and led to death of patients in many cases, which is why buying rings often brought in experimental drugs from foreign countries like Mexico, Switzerland and Sweden.
‘Something love about Elizabeth is her courage’.
She also established several charities and research foundations aimed at combatting the virus including the National AIDS Research Foundation and the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation. “She’d go to jail for it”, Ireland said.
She said: ‘She would sell jewelry, there were transfers of money, there would be a paper bag and there would be money.
The actress set up the operation as she was concerned that the patients were unable to get treatment for the disease.
‘Elizabeth and fear? Not in the same sentence’.
AVERT Chief Executive, Sarah Hand says: “We regularly hear from people in all parts of the world who are still anxious about the HIV test itself, what people might think of them, or getting a positive diagnosis”.
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He does not have AIDS, which is what HIV can develop into, and has been taking a cocktail of drugs for four years to treat himself.
