Stephen Lewis quotes:

Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable... and you do something about social and cultural equality for women, you're never going to defeat this pandemic.

I'm still at the end of my rope because I find myself not handling things well when I travel.

I think when you've travelled around a lot in Africa, you understand something that many people here don't recognize: the extraordinary power that is Africa at village level - at community level.

It is always the village women who drive these things.

It gives one hope, this great strength of Africa.

Young women, adolescent girls, are more subject to infection, sometimes at a rate of six times that of boys. That tells you a lot about the vulnerability of women.

The pandemic of AIDS is a gender-based disease.

But I don't want to leave until I see the breakthrough.

Men haven't changed their behaviour, so women somehow have to be strengthened to be able to ward off the men.