PROVIDENCE, R.I.—Renowned AIDS activist Stephen Lewis made an impassioned plea for the world's developing nations to stop the spread of the disease in poorer nations.
Lewis, a former United Nations official, was at Brown University on Saturday to urge students to pressure the G8 and the U.N. to live up to their promises of fighting the disease that is pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa.
He calls the lack of action a genocide and says we're in a "race against time" to stop AIDS from breaking out of the circles in which it is currently contained.
Lewis served from 2001 to 2006 as the United Nations special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa under Secretary General Kofi Annan. He is now the co-director of AIDS Free World, an international organization that urges effective and global response to the disease.
