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With
these wrenching words, diplomat and humanitarian Stephen
Lewis opens his 2005 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.
Stephen
Lewis is the UN Secretary-General’s special
envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, a commissioner of the
World Health Organization’s Commission on Social
Determinants of Health, and director of the 
