2026-04-01 from ctvnews.ca
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 Tuesday.
Lewis, who dedicated his life to advocating for social justice, was 88.
Dr. Adrienne Chan, who has worked in the HIV sector for over two decades, said she remembers feeling frustrated as an infectious diseases resident when she saw what was happening in Africa.
Tens of millions of people on the continent were dying because they did not have access to the life-saving medications her patients had in Canada, and she said it seemed like nobody was doing anything about it.
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