Stephen Lewis, groups call on Ottawa to show AIDS leadership

Stephen Lewis, groups call on Ottawa to show AIDS leadership
Last Updated Wed, 09 Aug 2006 12:45:54 EDT
CBC News

Stephen Lewis and a group of social development, anti-poverty and AIDS services organization have called on Canada to show more leadership in the global fight against HIV-AIDS.

They unveiled a four-point plan in Toronto on Wednesday, just days before the 16th International AIDS Conference, to be held in the city from Aug. 13 to 18.

Lewis, the UN secretary-general's special envoy for HIV-AIDS in Africa and a former leader of Ontario's New Democratic Party, called the campaign a direct challenge.

He said they want Ottawa to take a stand, rather than lapse into the "amorphous banalities and irrelevance to which the Canadian government seemed so severely addicted."

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Stephen Lewis, the UN secretary-general's special envoy for AIDS in Africa, called on Ottawa to take a stand, rather than lapse into the 'amorphous banalities and irrelevance to which the Canadian government seemed so severely addicted.' (CBC)