Talk Show Host Ricki Lake Launches Global Campaign Against AIDS, HIV

One the eve of World AIDS Day, famous talk show host Ricki Lake surprised everyone with her biggest contribution to the campaign against AIDS and HIV. Lake launched her "#TreatmentForAll" alongside famous social media stars, showcasing an informative and heart-wrenching documentary that urges people with the disease to get treatment.

Lake thought that gathering today's most famous social media stars including Wesley Stromberg, Sammy Wilkinson, Megan Nicole and Melvin Gregg would bring more attention, and, in turn, awareness for the disease, E! News reports.

Furthermore, the news outlet said that Lake with the group traveled to Malawi and went to the Jacaranda School, where numerous students and adults are infected with HIV and AIDS. Some have been taking medicines and have received treatment while some have not yet been introduced to the treatment to end their struggle.

Lake, in her humanitarian effort to bring awareness to the nearly 37 million people living with HIV, aims to urge them to seek medication since only 15.8 million are currently receiving treatment.

E! News also reports that #TreatmentForAll hopes to reduce the number of AIDS deaths and infections by 50 percent. "It is a complete honor and privilege to be a part of this unique campaign to spread the importance of #TreatmentForAll" and to introduce the world to a place that is so near and dear to my heart, The Jacaranda School in Malawi," Lake said in a statement.

"Through our mission, our social media influencers and I get to use each of our platforms to educate and hopefully change the landscape of HIV/AIDS globally. This has been a life-changing experience for all of us, one we will never forget, and one we will stay with until the job is done," she added.

In the documentary launched today via Facebook, the video featured Lake including the social media stars interviewing and trying to get to the root of the situation at the Jacaranda School in Malawi where not only are the children infected with AIDS, some are also discouraged to be educated because of their fear to be displaced for having the disease.

The video was simply used to give voice to a certain community in Malawi wanting to be treated, which Lake hopes to be used as an instrument not only for those in Malawi but to the others who are afraid to get treatment.

The video also featured a special music collaboration of Stromberg and Nicole, as per People.

Biography notes that Lake is famously known for her role in the original "Hairspray" as Tracy Turnblad and her award-winning daytime talk show "Ricki Lake."