LUCY LIU UNCOVERS AIDS MYTHS

(VIDEO) As the ambassador to UNICEF Lucy Liu discovered shocking myths still exist about AIDS.

Lucy Liu worked as an ambassador to UNICEF educating herself on issues dealing with the spread of HIV and AIDS around the world to prepare for her role in 3 Needles which tells three different struggles with the deadly disease. She found there was a lot of superstition regarding a cure.

Lucy also discovered that AIDS has become an epidemic far beyond afflicting homosexuals and intravenous drug users. She found that North America and Europe are not dealing with the issue much anymore.

“I had learned a lot about the different voodoos and the different ideas that people had about how they could get rid of HIV or how they thought they could by having sex with a virgin or with a baby. And in this particular part of the movie she has the disease as well but she doesn’t know what it is and she’s pregnant. So when she goes to the doctor she finds out she can’t breast feed because that’s a way you can give the disease to the baby as well.”

Lucy wants the audience to know that 3 Needles opening Friday spreads the message that we are still connected culturally by AIDS even though we don’t speak the same language and must continue to find ways to stop it.

“But it is something that hasn’t really been handled in other countries especially places that are impoverished and so I feel the lack of education and the lack of affordable health(care) for those people it makes it impossible for them to get back to zero. So it’s not about being homosexual or heroin users anymore. It’s about children being infected and people who are being born with it.”