MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTORS OF THE CARE CENTER

A New Home, A New Endowment, A New Direction in HIV Care

Dame Elizabeth Taylor lends her name to a campaign to ensure a stable and productive future for the CARE Center

These are momentous times for UCLA's Center for Clinical AIDS Research and Education (CARE) Center. It is our great good fortune that Dame Elizabeth Taylor, perhaps the greatest star of Hollywood's Golden Era, has agreed to lend her name, her prestige, and her support to a campaign to raise $5 million to create an endowment for the CARE Center—one that will allow us to provide the optimal clinical care that has been our hallmark since the earliest days of the AIDS epidemic, and do so in an environment that affords the kind of comfort and privacy that our patients expect and deserve.

Dame Elizabeth is, quite simply, the world's best known—and most successful—advocate for people living with HIV. Through the American Foundation for AIDS Research, known familiarly as amfAR, and through her own foundation, she has helped raise close to $250 million for medical research into the causes of AIDS and for compassionate care for those living with the disease.

Elizabeth Taylor's longtime friend, Dr. Arnold Klein, was instrumental in creating amfAR in 1985, and he played an equally critical role in facilitating the establishment of the Elizabeth Taylor Endowment Fund for the UCLA Clinical AIDS Research and Education Center. His involvement behind the scenes in bringing about both of these fruitful collaborations is described in How It All Began.


Ronald T. Mitsuyasu, M.D.
Director

Judith S, Currier, M.D.
Co-Director