Stories by Stephen Lewis
Stephen Lewis is U.N. Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa. In May 2003 he founded the Stephen Lewis Foundation to help women dying of AIDS in Africa and the orphans they leave behind.
Women in the Congo are suffering such horrific violence that "vaginal destruction" is now a local medical term. Where is the UN?
Posted on Apr 24, 2008
The gender-inequality struggle is the toughest struggle of all; and nowhere is it more keenly felt than in the battle against AIDS.
Posted on Nov 30, 2004
A new report on AIDS reveals a pandemic within the pandemic. Without strategies that specifically focus on women, there will be no global progress in fighting the disease.
Posted on Jul 15, 2004
