House of Anansi Press
Race Against Time
Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa The CBC Massey Lectures
Written by Stephen Lewis
Published October 01, 2005 |
ISBN 9780887848759
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries

About this book
Race Against Time
Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa
The CBC Massey Lectures
Stephen Lewis
"I have spent the last four years watching people die." With these wrenching words, diplomat and humanitarian Stephen Lewis opens his 2005 CBC Massey Lectures. Lewis's determination to bear witness to the desperate plight of so many in Africa and elsewhere is balanced by his unique, personal, and often searing insider's perspective on our ongoing failure to help.
Lewis recounts how, in 2000, the United Nations Millennium Summit in New York introduced eight Millennium Development Goals, which focused on fundamental issues such as education, health, and cutting poverty in half by 2015. In audacious prose, alive with anecdotes ranging from maddening to hilarious to heartbreaking, Lewis shows why and how the international community is falling desperately short of these goals.
This edition includes an afterword by Lewis, covering events after the lectures were delivered in fall 2005.
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About the Author
Stephen Lewis
Stephen Lewis is the former UN Secretary-General's special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa and director of the Stephen Lewis Foundation. Visit Stephen Lewis' website: http://www.stephenlewisfoundation.org/ Visit Stephen Lewis' blog: http://www.stephenlewisfoundation.org/blog/ Follow Stephen Lewis on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stephenlewisfdn
Awards and Praise
- Short-listed Writers' Trust of Canada Non-Fiction Prize, 2005
- Winner Non-Fiction, 2006
- Winner CBA Libris Award - Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year, 2006
- Short-listed Trillium Book Award, 2006