Wiwat Rojanapithayakorn

Wiwat Rojanapithayakorn (Thai: วิวัฒน์ โรจนพิทยากร) 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. 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: 8. PMID 12295690.


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