AmFar's Elizabeth Taylor Video Tribute Chronicling Her HIV / AIDS Activism

Elizabeth Taylor was honored by the American Foundation for AIDS Research with a video detailing her tireless activism against the disease. "I am not here in Washington to make people like me," Taylor says during a visit to our nation's capital. "I'm here to speak about a national scandal, a scandal of neglect, indifference, and abandonment." The narrator states, "Dame Elizabeth has fought for policy based on facts, not fear, for early education, and early intervention and scientific research."

Here is the short video narrated by Vanessa Redgrave:

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