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Sarah Jessica Parker Hosted amfAR Annual New York HIV Fundraiser

Sarah Jessica Parker lead the black tie gala last night in New York, which raised money for AIDS research, prevention and education. Stars came out to support their cause: Jennifer Hudson, Woody Allen, Lindsay Lohan, Molly Sims, Stanley Tucci. Designers included Kenneth Cole (sporting his new AIDS Ribbon design), Roberto Cavalli and models Rachel Roy, Cindy Crawford, Elizabeth Hurley, Karolina Kurkova and Heidi Klum.
In April 1983, the AIDS Medical Foundation (AMF) was founded in New York to help fill this gap and raise private funds to support scientific and medical research on AIDS. Its first research grants were awarded in 1984, and AMF also became active in disseminating accurate information to legislators and to an uninformed, sometimes frightened, and often bigoted public. In September 1985, the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR) was formed through the unification of AMF with the like-minded National AIDS Research Foundation, which had been incorporated in California in August 1985. To reflect the increasingly international scope of its programs, in 2005 amfAR became simply The Foundation for AIDS Research.
A video tribute to amfAR’s late Founding International Chairman played while opera singer Michelle Johnson sang. “I am intending, as I hope we all will, to take up Dame Elizabeth’s challenge to offer my help and continue the work she did so beautifully,” said Sarah Jessica Parker. “That’s how we should honor her. … Dame Elizabeth blazed a trail, and it’s up to us to bring that trail to fulfillment.”
Tom Thayer
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