But some critics say the G-8 can't do anything about poverty without dealing with the AIDS crisis on the continent. At the alternative summit opening Friday night in Calgary, and at a gathering of ...

Stephen Lewis, a Canadian leftist political leader and diplomat who turned to fighting the AIDS epidemic in Africa after steering Ontario's New Democratic Party in the 1970s, died Tuesday in Toronto.

TORONTO - Stephen Lewis awakened the Canadian public’s consciousness to the HIV-AIDS pandemic raging in Africa and galvanized the political will to stop standing idle, experts said following his death ...

TORONTO (AP) — Stephen Lewis, Canada’s former ambassador to the United Nations and a lifelong social activist and former politician, has died. He was 88. The Stephen Lewis Foundation announced his ...

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Not long before Avi Lewis was elected federal NDP Leader last month, he was on the phone with his father, Stephen. The ...

The Manitoba government is creating a new post-doctoral fellowship in HIV/AIDS research to honour the late Stephen Lewis, ...