Eva Longoria, Katy Perry, Pamela Anderson raise AIDS awareness

Stars including EVA LONGORIA PARKER, KATY PERRY and PAMELA ANDERSON gathered to support HIV charity AIDS Life at the 2009 Life Ball on Saturday (16May09).

The event, held in the town hall of the Austrian capital Vienna, played host to 4,000 guests in a bid to raise awareness of the worldwide fight against the killer disease. 
Desperate Housewives star Longoria Parker, a representative of the American Foundation for AIDS Research, told the audience, "There's a terrible shortage of doctors and other healthcare workers who are trained to provide the proper treatment and care for those children (with HIV)." 

Other guests included former U.S. President Bill Clinton, model Amber Valletta, and actress Fran Drescher.

Clinton, in a brief speech, urged people not to forget the less fortunate.

"We know we live in an interdependent world where we cannot separate our fates from those a long way away," he said. "Tonight, you are not just enjoying an extraordinary extravaganza, you are helping children and women and men to live in far away places who would have no money, no medicine, no hope."

In 2002, Clinton established the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative to facilitate access to lifesaving antiretroviral treatment and improve national health care systems in developing countries