Stephen Lewis is a canadian politician, broadcaster, and diplomat. He grew up in a small town. As a college student he attended Law School at University of British Columbia. He left his studies in the 1960's and took up a job with the Socialist International where he recieved an invitation to a conference in Ghana. He spent more then a year, traveling, teaching and exploring different parts of Africa. While there he realized the huge impact AIDS had on Africans. When returning to his initial job in Canada, he got promoted to the head of the department. He then proposed the idea of helping Africans with this problem. Many people didn't look at it with an open mind, so Stephen was forced to work on this problem alone. He founded the foundation called the "Stephen Lewis Foundation" a charitable organization that helps the one affeted and infected by HIV/AIDS. Stephen came up with the idea of circumicision of the males when they were born to reduce the numbers of people infected by AIDS and his method worked. He says it has been scientifically proven that this procedure is indeed affective. In October of 2009, he came up with the campaign called "A Dare to Remember." This campaign dared canadians to do something completely out of their comfort zone to raise money for the people suffering from HIV/AIDS. Stephen worked with many people putting this organization together, and his main focus in life was to help the ones in Africa. He was a dedicated AIDS activist, and over the years did many thing to help the ones affected and infected from HIV/AIDS. He was very angry with the way things were being handled and thought that the world was arragont in the problems of other places. As long as it didn't hurt them, it didn't matter is what he thought their mentality was behind it all.
"The world has been terribly delinquent," in responding to the AIDS crisis in Africa, he said, as were some African leaders. Even in the late 1990s, "a lot of them simply weren't engaged ... and their countries were clearly in terrible
trouble. To be fair to them, the world wasn't engaged either.... Everybody was ... frozen in time, while all around us this pandemic was wreaking havoc."
http://www.un.org/ecosocdev/geninfo/afrec/vol15no1/151aids3.htm
http://www.jhsph.edu/publichealthnews/articles/2006/lewis.html
"The world has been terribly delinquent," in responding to the AIDS crisis in Africa, he said, as were some African leaders. Even in the late 1990s, "a lot of them simply weren't engaged ... and their countries were clearly in terrible
trouble. To be fair to them, the world wasn't engaged either.... Everybody was ... frozen in time, while all around us this pandemic was wreaking havoc."
http://www.un.org/ecosocdev/geninfo/afrec/vol15no1/151aids3.htm
http://www.jhsph.edu/publichealthnews/articles/2006/lewis.html