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Stephen Lewis
Canadian
Politician
About the author
I'm still at the end of my rope because I find myself not handling things well when I travel.
Stephen Lewis,
Canadian
Politician
#End
#Travel
Men haven't changed their behaviour, so women somehow have to be strengthened to be able to ward off the men.
Stephen Lewis,
Canadian
Politician
#Men
#Women
Young women, adolescent girls, are more subject to infection, sometimes at a rate of six times that of boys. That tells you a lot about the vulnerability of women.
Stephen Lewis,
Canadian
Politician
#Women
#Boys
#Girls
#Vulnerability
Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable... and you do something about social and cultural equality for women, you're never going to defeat this pandemic.
Stephen Lewis,
Canadian
Politician
#Equality
#Defeat
#Women
One is that if women's sexuality in Africa wasn't under assault, if women were able to say no, if women weren't subject to predatory attacks by men, or predatory behaviour generally, then you would have a disease in Africa called AIDS. But you wouldn't have a pandemic.
Stephen Lewis,
Canadian
Politician
#Disease
#Women
#Sexuality
It is always the village women who drive these things.
Stephen Lewis,
Canadian
Politician
#Women
It gives one hope, this great strength of Africa.
Stephen Lewis,
Canadian
Politician
#Hope
#Strength
I was working for the Socialist International, after I left university in 1959, as a researcher.
Stephen Lewis,
Canadian
Politician
#University
I think when you've travelled around a lot in Africa, you understand something that many people here don't recognize: the extraordinary power that is Africa at village level - at community level.
Stephen Lewis,
Canadian
Politician
#People
#Power
#Community
I learned later, just as a footnote, that the World Assembly of Youth was a CIA front.
Stephen Lewis,
Canadian
Politician
#World
#Youth
I'm in a great rage now, as I understand how many lives we have lost.
Stephen Lewis,
Canadian
Politician
#Now
But I don't want to leave until I see the breakthrough.
Stephen Lewis,
Canadian
Politician
#Want
All I know is that every time I go to Africa, I am shaken to my core.
Stephen Lewis,
Canadian
Politician
#Time
The United Nations has a lot of capacity on the ground.
Stephen Lewis,
Canadian
Politician
#Nations
#United
The pandemic of AIDS is a gender-based disease.
Stephen Lewis,
Canadian
Politician
#Disease
#Gender