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Miley Cyrus On Being Honored For AIDS Activism: "There’s Just No Way That I Have Done Nearly Enough"

[caption id="attachment_207230" align="alignnone" width="551"]2015 amfAR Inspiration Gala New York - Show Laverne Cox, Tyler Ford and Miley Cyrus[/caption]

Miley Cyrus was honored by amfAR last night at the AIDS organization's annual Inspiration Gala in New York, hosted by out newsman Anderson Cooper.

The "Wrecking Ball" has stepped up her advocacy work for the LGBT community this year, launching her Happy Hippie Foundation for homeless queer youth, and partnering with Instagram on its #InstaPride campaign.

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Cyrus brought as her date Tyler Ford, a performer who appeared on The Glee Project and identifies as agender. Ford reminded the crowd that, "as a queer trans person of color, statistics show that I am much more at risk for contracting HIV than most of you in this room."

Though she's known for her sometimes outlandish antics, Cyrus was humble in her acceptance speech:

Getting the Inspiration Award tonight is unbelievable. Seriously, I didn’t believe them when they told me I got it because it seems just way too easy and it seems that there’s just no way that I have done nearly enough to be standing here on the receiving end of this honor.

There are so many people around the world right now that deserve this recognition and they’ve dedicated their lives to finding a cure for living with HIV/AIDS, using their voices to speak out against the brutal and unfair condemnation and abominable stigma that comes with this disease.

Cyrus promised that she would "continue to fight, along with such an industrious army, to find a cure for this epidemic."

The evening raised $1.5 million in total.

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