Fighting AIDS has obviously become a very big industry.

Lewis, the former provincial NDP leader who failed to form an NDP government in Ontario, and the son of former national NDP leader David Lewis, who failed to form an NDP government in Ottawa, has for years served as the UN’s special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa.

Last week Lewis was one of the keynote speakers before the International Conference on AIDS, which drew 24,000 delegates to Toronto.

Lewis, the former provincial NDP leader who failed to form an NDP government in Ontario, and the son of former national NDP leader David Lewis, who failed to form an NDP government in Ottawa, has for years served as the UN’s special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa.

He was therefore a highly qualified speaker– doubly qualified, in fact, since the conference, judging from the front-page headlines it generated, was maybe 15% about AIDS and 85% about politics.

The real objective was not actually the extermination of AIDS, but the extermination of one George W. Bush, at the mention of whose name jeers, boos, catcalls and abuse resounded through the conference.

The U.S. president was targeted because his five-year $15-billion US “Pepfar” program (President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief) advocates an “ABC” battle against AIDS — first, Abstinence from sex outside marriage; second, Be faithful to your spouse; third, use Condoms if A and B fail. What was really galling is the program’s requirement that at least 33% of the spending be used to advocate abstinence.

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Fighting AIDS has obviously become a very big industry. Lewis, the former provincial NDP leader who failed to form an NDP government in Ontario, and the son of former national NDP leader David Lewis, who failed to form an NDP government in Ottawa, has for years served as the UN’s special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa. [...]