Stephen Lewis, UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, doesn't mince words. In articulate and piercing tones, he consistently calls for more global attention to the AIDS pandemic. In a new series of lectures in Canada, he articulates his current views about the looming devastation many countries will face in coming decades:

It's simply impossible to tear the productive generations out of the heart of a country without facing an incomparable crisis.

In fighting against AIDS, Lewis at some point will exhaust patience (his own or others'). Nonetheless, the greatest ally of AIDS in developing countries is indifference, and Stephen Lewis does his best to eschew global indifference.

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