Wiwat Rojanapithayakorn

Wiwat Rojanapithayakorn 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.
  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. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
  5. ↑ "Laureates". Prince Mahidol Award website. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
  6. ↑ Rojanapithayakorn, Wiwat (8 December 1999). "Careful monitoring of human rights needed". Asian Forum Newsletter. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
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