Wiwat Rojanapithayakorn

Wiwat Rojanapithayakorn (Thai: วิวัฒน์ โรจนพิทยากร) (born, 25 October 1950) is a Thai public health official known for developing the 100% condom program in Thailand in 1989. He first pioneered the program as the director of Thailand's Office of Communicable Disease Control in Ratchaburi,[1] and while he was the director of the country's Center for the Prevention and Control of AIDS.[2][3][4] He, together with Mechai Viravaidya, won the Prince Mahidol Award in 2009 for this work.[5] He later served as the leader of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS team in Beijing, China.[6]

References

  1. ^ Fordham, Graham (2014). HIV/AIDS and the Social Consequences of Untamed Biomedicine. Routledge. p. 139. ISBN 9781317632740.
  2. ^ Erlanger, Steven (30 March 1989). "Thriving Sex Industry in Bangkok Is Raising Fears of an AIDS Epidemic". New York Times. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
  3. ^ Nakashima, Ellen (10 July 2004). "Cracks Start to Show In Thailand's Model Anti-AIDS Program". Washington Post. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
  4. ^ Treerutkuarkul, Apiradee (June 2010). "Thailand's new condom crusade". Bulletin of the World Health Organization. Archived from the original on March 31, 2013. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
  5. ^ "Laureates". Prince Mahidol Award website. Archived from the original on 14 October 2014. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
  6. ^ Rojanapithayakorn, Wiwat (8 December 1999). "Careful monitoring of human rights needed". Asian Forum Newsletter: 8. PMID 12295690.


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