35 Quotes by Stephen Lewis

One is that if women’s sexuality in Africa wasn’t under assault, if women were able to say no, if women weren’t subject to predatory attacks by men, or predatory behavior generally, then you would have a disease in Africa called AIDS. But you wouldn’t have a pandemic.

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.

Men haven't changed their behaviour, so women somehow have to be strengthened to be able to ward off the men.

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.

It gives one hope, this great strength of Africa.

It is not clear what the impact of estrangement between the U.S. and some its allies will have on the financial sphere. The last G7 meeting did not achieve a great deal.

I was working for the Socialist International, after I left university in 1959, as a researcher.

It is always the village women who drive these things.