Stephen Lewis
Stephen Lewis
Stephen Henry Lewis, CCis a Canadian politician, public speaker, broadcaster and diplomat. He was the leader of the social democratic Ontario New Democratic Party for most of the 1970s...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth11 November 1937
CityOttawa, Canada
CountryCanada
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The United Nations has a lot of capacity on the ground.
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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.
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the first dramatic signal from the U.S. administration that it is now ready to confront the pandemic and to save or prolong millions of lives.
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It is worth noting that, in its revised forecasts for GDP growth, the OECD saw fit to raise its 1999 forecasts for most (euro-zone) member-countries, as compared with its June projections, but lowered those for Germany and Italy.
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I don't think the world yet realizes the carnage that is to come. I don't think the world yet realizes the full, incomparable horror of AIDS, and its inexorable spread around the planet.
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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.
The pandemic of AIDS is a gender-based disease.