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
Recognition, Going, Social, Women Are
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
Infection, Young Women, Six, Adolescent
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
Think, Here, Africa, Travelled
I learned later, just as a footnote, that the World Assembly of Youth was a CIA front.
- Stephen Lewis
World, Later, Learned, CIA
Men haven't changed their behaviour, so women somehow have to be strengthened to be able to ward off the men.
- Stephen Lewis
Men, Able, Strengthened, Behaviour
I'm in a great rage now, as I understand how many lives we have lost.
- Stephen Lewis
Lost, How, Lives, Rage
It is always the village women who drive these things.
- Stephen Lewis
Drive, Always, Things, Village
It gives one hope, this great strength of Africa.
- Stephen Lewis
Strength, Hope, Africa, Gives
I'm still at the end of my rope because I find myself not handling things well when I travel.
- Stephen Lewis
Myself, Rope, Still, Handling
The pandemic of AIDS is a gender-based disease.
- Stephen Lewis
Disease, AIDS, Pandemic
I was working for the Socialist International, after I left university in 1959, as a researcher.
- Stephen Lewis
University, Left, Socialist, Researcher
All I know is that every time I go to Africa, I am shaken to my core.
- Stephen Lewis
Go, Africa, Am, Core
But I don't want to leave until I see the breakthrough.
- Stephen Lewis
Want, See, Leave, Breakthrough
The United Nations has a lot of capacity on the ground.
- Stephen Lewis
United, United Nations, Lot, Nations
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