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Stephen Henry Lewis, CC, born November 11, 1937,<ref name="smith">{{cite bookREFbook | last1 last= Smith | first1 first= Cameron | year=1989 | title = Unfinished Journey: The Lewis Family | url= | editor= | edition = 1 | publisher volume= Summerhill Press. | year chapter= 1989 | pages = 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. | 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 | year=1989 | title = Unfinished Journey: The Lewis Family | url= | editor= | edition = 1 | publisher volume= Summerhill Press. | year chapter= 1989 | pages = 330 | location= | publisher=Summerhill Press | isbn = 0-929091-04-3 | note= | accessdate=}}</ref> and a very outspoken feminist.<ref>{{cite webREFweb | last=commonwealthmedia | first= | year=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= | year=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= | year=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 year= 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 | year=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 = Toye | first = Suelan | date = 2010-09-14

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AIDS-Free World is an international advocacy organization with a small staff that works virtually from a dozen locations in the US and Canada, Africa, the Caribbean and Europe.<ref name="about afw">{{cite webREFweb | last=AIDS Free World | first= | year= | 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 webREFweb | last=Lewis | first=Stephen | year=2010-01-06 | title=AIDSFreeWorld: Male Circumcision, part 1 | url = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9kIqB_6KRg | title = Male Circumcision, part 1 | accessdate = 2011-10-28 | last = Lewis | first = Stephen | date = 2010-01-06 | work = AIDSFreeWorld | publisher = YouTube}}</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 circumcision and recognized that it's withstood the transmission of the virus. |source Author= --Stephen Lewis. | Source=| lang=| before=| after=| Transcription=| Translation=| 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 male circumcision for the inspired preventative technology that it is. |source Author=Lewis, S.| Source=YouTube| lang=| before=| after=| Transcription=| Translation=| ref= --<ref>[http://youtuwww.youtube.becom/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 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| lang=| before=| after=| Transcription=| Translation=| 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=| lang=| before=| after=| Transcription=| Translation=| 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=| lang=| before=| after=| Transcription=| Translation=| 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>

==See Also=={{SEEALSO}}*[[UNAIDS]] -- Stephen was former head of UNAIDS*[[WHO|World Health Organization]] -- The WHO is heavily influenced by UNAIDS*[[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.

==External LinksNotes==*[httpMcLeod, Thomas; Ian McLeod (2004). The Road to Jerusalem (2 ed.). Calgary://wwwFifth House.youtube.com/watch?v=VP2136deFHU To Stephen Lewis ISBN 1- Letter from a Grandmother] 894856-48- a letter of support to Stephen Lewis (satire)1.

==References=={{LINKS}}<div class* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v='referencesVP2136deFHU To Stephen Lewis -small'><references/></div>Letter from a Grandmother] -- a letter of support to Stephen Lewis (satire).