Race Against Time: Shared by Niloufar Pourzand

Facebook post by the Stephen Lewis Foundation

This #BookLoversDay we’re spotlighting a powerful and enduring read.

 
It has been 20 years since Race Against Time, the bestselling book based on Stephen Lewis’s 2005 Massey Lectures, was first published.

Now, two decades later, Stephen’s insights on the global inequities that drive the HIV epidemic continue to ring true. “It is beyond belief that we have permitted this to happen,” he shared as the co-founder of the Stephen Lewis Foundation (2003) and the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa (June 2001–2006).

 
While there has been remarkable progress made against AIDS, due to diminishing international funding for the global HIV response — including the Trump administration’s abrupt cuts this year — that progress is at risk.

Together, through local action, global solidarity and investment from governments that puts communities, not politics, at the centre of the HIV response, we can end AIDS.

Today, Stephen Lewis Foundation partners across 14 countries in Africa, continue to champion health and human rights to end the #HIV epidemic in their communities as part of the global response. The time to act is now.

You can find Race Against Time here: houseofanansi.com/products/race-against-time  or on Amazon