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AIDS group baying for UN envoy's blood

    JOHANNESBURG
    The director of the Global Centre for Uganda's ABC (Abstinence, Be Faithful and use Condoms) Strategy has urged the UN to dismiss Stephen Lewis, the special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, Canada's LifeSiteNews.com reports. In a letter addressed to the UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, this week, Pastor Martin Ssempa accused the envoy of using the UN "for his personal agenda of condomising developing nations". The letter is in response to Lewis's recent statement that Uganda has had a condom shortage for the past 10 months as a result of being under the influence of a US presidential initiative emphasising abstinence above condoms. According to Ssempa's letter, "Mr Kofi Annan should ask for the resignation of Stephen Lewis, who is further sinking the credibility of UN in the Great Lakes region. We are tired of these western officials who fly in for a few hours and become experts on our campaign."

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