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Stephen Henry Lewis, CC, born November ({{LifeData|1937-11-11, 1937}}),<ref name="smith">{{cite bookREFbook | last1 last= Smith | first1 first= Cameron |init=C |year=1989 | title = Unfinished Journey: The Lewis Family |url= |editor= | edition = 1 | publisher volume= Summerhill Press. | year chapter= 1989 | pages page= 258 |location= |publisher=Summerhill Press | isbn = 0-929091-04-3 |note= |accessdate=}}</ref> is a Canadian politician,<ref>{{cite bookREFbook | last1 last= MacDonald | first1 first= Donald C. |init=DC |year=1998 | title = The Happy Warrior: Political Memoirs |url= |editor= | edition = 2 | publisher volume= |chapter= |pages= |location= Dundurn Press | year publisher= 1998Dundurn Press | isbn = 1-55002-307-1 |note= |accessdate=}}</ref> broadcaster, diplomat and former head of [[UNAIDS]]. He is Jewish ([[Religion and Culture|why this is important]]),<ref>{{cite bookREFbook | last1 last= Smith | first1 first= Cameron |init=C |year=1989 | title = Unfinished Journey: The Lewis Family |url= |editor= | edition = 1 | publisher volume= Summerhill Press. | year chapter= 1989 | pages page= 330 |location= |publisher=Summerhill Press | isbn = 0-929091-04-3 |note= |accessdate=}}</ref> and a very outspoken feminist.<ref>{{cite webREFweb |last=commonwealthmedia |first= |date=2010-02-02 |title=Stephen Lewis Co-Dir, Aids free world | url = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFkVLJ9Ukts | title = Stephen Lewis Co-Dir, Aids free world | accessdate = 2011-04-01 | date = 2010-02-02 | work = YouTube | publisher = commonwealthmedia}}</ref> Lewis is a vehement promoter of male circumcision, particularly infant male [[circumcision ]] (as [[HIV ]] prevention policy).<ref>{{cite webREFweb |last=AIDSFreeWorld |first= |date=2010-01-06 |title=Male Circumcision, part 1 | url = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9kIqB_6KRg | title = Male Circumcision, part 1 | accessdate = 2011-04-01 | date = 2010-01-06 | work = YouTube | publisher = AIDSFreeWorld}}</ref> Lewis calls circumcision "inspired preventive technology." Lewis is very close friends with [[Bill Clinton]].<ref>{{cite webREFweb |last=garymcnutt |first= |date=2006-09-24 |title=Stephen Lewis on Gender Equality | url = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6bUognn0pA | title = Stephen Lewis on Gender Equality | accessdate = 2011-04-01}}</ref><ref>{{REFweb | date last= 2006-09-24clintonfoundationorg | work first= YouTube | publisher date= garymcnutt2009-10-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=A Special Discussion with President Clinton on World AIDS Day | url = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUaGIc4GYLQ | title = A Special Discussion with President Clinton on World AIDS Day. | accessdate = 2011-04-01 | date = 2009-10-04 | work = YouTube | publisher = clintonfoundationorg}}</ref> Stephen was the leader of the democratic socialist Ontario New Democratic Party for most of the 1970s. In the mid-1980s, he was appointed as [[Canada]]'s United Nations ambassador. He quit in 1988 and worked at various United Nations agencies during the 1990s. In the 2000s, he served a term as the United Nations' special envoy for [[HIV]]/[[AIDS ]] in Africa, and head of [[UNAIDS]].<ref name='Ryerson 2010-09-14'>{{cite webREFweb |last=Toye |first=Suelan |date=2010-09-14 |title=Stephen Lewis, humanitarian, diplomat and activist, appointed a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Ryerson University | url = http://www.ryerson.ca/news/media/General_Public/20100914_MR_Stephen%20.html | title = Stephen Lewis, humanitarian, diplomat and activist, appointed a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Ryerson University | accessdate = 2011-03-30 | last publisher= Toye | first = Suelan {{UNI| date = 2010-09-14 | publisher = Ryerson University|RyeU}}}}</ref>

AIDS-Free World is an international advocacy organization with a small staff that works virtually from a dozen locations in the [[USA| US ]] and [[Canada]], Africa, the Caribbean and Europe.<ref name="about afw">{{cite webREFweb |last=AIDS Free World |first= |date= |title=Who We Are - AIDS Free World | url = http://www.aidsfreeworld.org/About-Us/Who-We-Are.aspx | title = Who We Are - AIDS Free World | accessdate = 2011-10-28 | work = AIDS Free World | publisher = Peer1 Hosting}}</ref> Co-Directors [[Paula Donovan]] and Stephen Lewis founded AIDS-Free World in 2007.<ref name="about afw"/><ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9kIqB_6KRg | title = Male Circumcision, part 1 | accessdate = 2011-10-28REFweb | last = Lewis | first = Stephen | date = 2010-01-06 | work title= AIDSFreeWorld: Male Circumcision, part 1 |url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9kIqB_6KRg | publisher accessdate= YouTube2011-10-28}}</ref> Lewis uses this organization to gather funding for male circumcision programs.

  {| style="float: center;" border="0"| {{Quote boxCitation |title Title= <small>Orgy of Male Bonding</small> |quote Text= There was some titter of laughter and gentile applause which resonated throughout the room. So I felt it was the appropriate moment to tell the crowd that I was [[circumcised]]. Which I did. There followed what can only be described as an <span style="background:#d7f5ff">Orgy of Male Bonding</span>. I have never been so embraced and hugged so extravagantly by numbers of people simultaneously as they conveyed to me that they understood the importance of [[adult circumcision | circumcision]] and recognized that it's withstood the transmission of the virus. |source Author= --Stephen Lewis. |Source= |ref=<ref>[http://fora.tv/2008/07/28/Stephen_Lewis_Disease_and_Climate_Change_in_Africa Fora, TV. (2008). Stephen Lewis: ''disease and climate change in Africa.''] |align = center |width = 75% |quoted = yes</ref>

{| style="float: center;" border="0"| {{Quote boxCitation |title Title= <small>[[Paula Donovan ]] ([[UNICEF]])</small> |quote Text= She [ [[Paula Donovan]] ] realized that male circumcision was a good preventative way to slow the spread of [[AIDS]]. So she took that analysis further. She suggested to the male leadership in Nairobi, that [[UNICEF ]] propose that <span style="background:#d7f5ff">[[circumcision ]] accompany the regular process of immunization of infants</span>... Paula was easily 10 years ahead of her time, because <span style="background:#d7f5ff">that's exactly what's being discussed in several countries now</span>... and what did the [[UNICEF ]] hierarchy do at the time? They grabbed their genitals in protective embrace and laughed it off like only male sexists can laugh things off. ...the UN took more than a decade to see [[adult circumcision| male circumcision ]] for the inspired preventative technology that it is. |source Author= --Lewis, S. |Source=YouTube |ref=<ref>[http://youtuwww.beyoutube.com/watch?n9kIqB_6KRg Lewis, S. (2010, January 06). , ''Male circumcision, part 1.'' Retrieved.] |align = center |width = 75% |quoted = yes</ref>

{{Quote boxCitation |title Title= <small>Circumcising Infants to protect against HIV</small> |quote Text= [[USAID]], [[UNAIDS ]] and the [[World Health Organization ]] conducted a fascinating analysis to estimate the value of <span style="background:#d7f5ff">scaling up [[adult circumcision | circumcision]] to reach 80% of the adult and newborn male population in 14 African countries by 2015. ...It's really incredible when you think about it, and it's already happening.</span> |source Author=Lewis, S. |Source=YouTube |ref= --<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnP6XWR4Nfk Lewis, S. (2010, January 07). ''Male circumcision, part 2.'' Retrieved] |align = center |width = 75% |quoted = yes</ref>

{{Quote boxCitation |title Title= <small>Ancient Blood Ritual is a new ''Technology''</small> |quote Text= The most unexpected and successful preventative <span style="background:#d7f5ff">technology</span>, which has been chronicled in the last couple of years, is male circumcision. |source Author= --Stephen Lewis. |Source= |ref=<ref>[http://fora.tv/2008/07/28/Stephen_Lewis_Disease_and_Climate_Change_in_Africa Fora, TV. (2008). Stephen Lewis: ''disease and climate change in Africa.''] |align = center |width = 75% |quoted = yes</ref>

{{Quote boxCitation |title Title= <small>Extraordinary Hypocrisy & Sexism</small> |quote Text= The sexual and gender inequality compromises the lives women lead. [...] [[Female genital mutilation ]] is a particularly awful practice. [...] The discrimination, the panoply of discrimination that is visited on women in this world is just appalling, and it obviously sabotages the lives they lead. ...I live in a feminist family and I love it. I think the feminist analysis is by far the most insightful. ...The single most important struggle on the planet, is the struggle for gender equality. [...] It all takes time in dealing with men. Dealing with male sexual behavior, to change male sexual behavior is going to be a couple of generations. ...My wife has often said on public platforms--— much to my mortification--— that it took her 20 years to turn me into a human being, and then the next 25 or 26 were tolerable. ...It takes all of us time. Men are resistant to change. |source Author=Lewis, S. |Source= -- |ref=<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFkVLJ9Ukts Lewis, S. (2010, February 02). ''Stephen lewis co-dir, aids free world.''] |align = center |width = 75% |quoted = yes</ref>

|== Population-based studies =={{Population-based studies}}==Two African surveys==The previously reported studies were from developed Western nations. Now we have information from Sub_Saharan Africa.

==See Also==*French scientist [[UNAIDSMichel Garenne]] -- Stephen was former head of UNAIDS*[[World Health Organization]] -- The WHO is heavily influenced by UNAIDS*[[Paula Donovan]] -- Benefactor of Stephen Lewis, Ph. Worked at UNICEF, promotes infant circumcisionD.*has published two reports in 2022 comparing the incidence of HIV infection in [[UNICEFcircumcised]] -- Paula Donovan of UNICEF is a benefactor of Lewis.*and [[Bill Clintonintact]] -- Friend and Benefactor of Lewismen.

In his first report, Garenne presented the findings from a study in Lesotho, the enclave in South Africa. He reported:<blockquote>In couple studies, the effect of circumcision and VMMC on HIV was not significant, with similar transmission from female to male and male to female. The study questions the amount of effort and money spent on VMMC in Lesotho.<ref name="garenne2022A">{{REFjournal |last=External LinksGarenne |first=Michel |init=M*[http |author-link=Michel Garenne |title=Changing relationships between HIV prevalence and circumcision in Lesotho |url=https://wwwpubmed.ncbi.nlm.youtubenih.comgov/watch?v35373731/ |date=VP2136deFHU To Stephen Lewis 2022- Letter from a Grandmother] 04-04 |journal=J Biosoc Sci |volume=online ahead of print |pages=1- a letter of support to Stephen Lewis (satire)16 |DOI=10.1017/S0021932022000153 |pubmedID=35373731 |accessdate=2022-11-02}}</ref> </blockquote>

In his second report, Garenne (2022) presented information from six Sub-Saharan African nations (Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe). He reported:<blockquote> "Results matched earlier observations made in South Africa that [[circumcised]] and [[intact]] men had similar levels of HIV infection."<ref name="garenne2022B">{{REFjournal |last=Garenne |first=Michael |init=M |author-link= |etal=no |title=Age-incidence and prevalence of HIV among intact and circumcised men: an analysis of PHIA surveys in Southern Africa |trans-title= |language= |journal=J Biosoc Sci |location= |date=2022-10-26 |season= |volume= |issue= |article= |page= |pages=1-13 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-biosocial-science/article/abs/ageincidence-and-prevalence-of-hiv-among-intact-and-circumcised-men-an-analysis-of-phia-surveys-in-southern-africa/CAA7E7BD5A9844F41C6B7CC3573B9E50 |archived= |quote= |pubmedID=References36286328 |pubmedCID= |DOI=10.1017/S0021932022000414 <div class |accessdate='references2022-small'>11-02}}<references/ref></divblockquote>{{SEEALSO}}* [[Canada]]* [[UNAIDS]] — Stephen was former head of [[UNAIDS]]* [[WHO|World Health Organization]] — The WHO is heavily influenced by [[UNAIDS]] and [[Bill Gates]].* [[Paula Donovan]] — Benefactor of Stephen Lewis. Worked at [[UNICEF]], promotes infant circumcision.* [[UNICEF]] — Paula Donovan of [[UNICEF]] is a benefactor of Lewis.* [[Bill Clinton]] — Friend and Benefactor of Lewis.* [[Circumcision and HIV]]

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