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UNAIDS is the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS that works towards achieving universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support.<ref>
{{cite web
 | url = http://www.unaids.org/en/aboutunaids/
 | title = UNAIDS
 | accessdate = 2011-03-29
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</ref> UNAIDS established in 1994 by a resolution of the UN Economic and Social Council and launched in January 1996.<ref>
{{cite news
 | title = UNAIDS: The First 10 Years
 | date = 2008-11-03
 | url = http://www.unaids.org/en/resources/presscentre/featurestories/2008/november/20081103tfty/
 | work = UNAIDS
 | accessdate
 = 2011-08-30
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==Stephen Lewis - Former head of UNAIDS==
Stephen Henry Lewis, CC, born November 11, 1937,<ref>Smith, p.258 ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Lewis more here])</ref> is a Canadian politician,<ref>MacDonald, pp. 151-152 ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Lewis more here])</ref> broadcaster, diplomat and former head of UNAIDS. He is Jewish ([[Religion and Culture|why this is important]]),<ref>
{{cite book
 | last1 = Smith
 | first1 = Cameron
 | title = Unfinished Journey: The Lewis Family
 | edition = 1
 | publisher = Summerhill Press.
 | year = 1989
 | pages = 330
 | isbn = 0-929091-04-3
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</ref> and a very outspoken feminist.<ref>
{{cite web
 | 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 web
 | 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 web
 | url = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6bUognn0pA
 | title = Stephen Lewis on Gender Equality
 | accessdate = 2011-04-01
 | date = 2006-09-24
 | work = YouTube
 | publisher = garymcnutt
}}</ref><ref>
{{cite web
 | 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 web
 | 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
 | publisher = Ryerson University
}}
</ref>

=== Quotes ===


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 |quote = 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 = --Stephen Lewis. [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.'']
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 |quote = The most unexpected and successful preventative <span style="background:#d7f5ff">technology</span>, which has been chronicalled in the last couple of years, is male circumcision.
 |source = --Stephen Lewis. [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.'']
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==See Also==
*[[Stephen H. Lewis]] -- Former head of UNAIDS.

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