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    Mechai Viravaidya (born 17 January 1941, Thai: มีชัย วีระไวทยะ; RTGS: Michai Wirawaithaya) is a former politician and activist in Thailand known for promoting...
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  • Community-Based Family Planning Service, it was founded by Mechai Viravaidya in 1974. In the early 1970s, Viravaidya was the Minister of Industry but became frustrated...
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  • the Ashoka Fellow Sunit Shrestha. A major figure in the space is Mechai Viravaidya, founder of the Population and Community Development Association (PDA)...
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    Among female sex workers in brothels, it was 0.6 percent (2017). Mechai Viravaidya, known as "Mr. Condom", has campaigned tirelessly to increase the...
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  • father) Jon and Giles Ji Ungpakorn (Thai father, English mother) Mechai Viravaidya (Thai father, Scottish mother) Rangsiman Rome (Thai mother, American...
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    scholar Angus Trumble (TC 1983) – art historian, curator, and author Mechai Viravaidya AO (TC 1960) – Thai social reformer Reginald Chester Wilmot (TC 1931)...
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  • exceptionalism can also be framed negatively. For example, according to Mechai Viravaidya, Thailand is a nation of lawbreakers . During the 18th century, Southeast...
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    Huegill, swimmer Anchilee Scott-Kemmis, Miss Universe Thailand 2021 Mechai Viravaidya, politician and activist Chai Romruen, actor Marion Grasby, TV presenter...
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  • Council Manoonkrit Roopkachorn (born 1935), President of the Senate Mechai Viravaidya (born 1941), Minister to the office of the Prime Minister Mongkol...
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    into maternal and child healthcare education. Public figures such as Mechai Viravaidya helped spread family planning awareness through public speakings and...
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    program committees, the Community Program Committee, chaired by Senator Mechai Viravaidya and Donald De Gagne, the Scientific Program Committee chaired by Professor...
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  • monks encourage the use of condoms for HIV prevention. As part of Mechai Viravaidya's pro-condom campaign, Buddhist monks have offered blessed condoms...
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    Katharine Hepburn, actress Bishop Paul Moore Guadalupe de la Vega Mechai Viravaidya Jeannie I. Rosoff Phil Donahue, media personality, writer, film producer...
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  • much pain the mother's heart would feel. Koo Gum (1970) – Starring Mechai Viravaidya as Kobori Koo Gum (1973) – Starring Nard Poowanai as Kobori Koo Gum...
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  • brighter hopes to Maharashtra's rural women and their families." 1994 Mechai Viravaidya (b. 1941)  Thailand "for his mounting creative public campaigns in...
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  • Muhammad Yunus 2005: Dr. Morris Chang 2006: Ms. Olivia Lum 2007: Mr. Mechai Viravaidya 2008: Center of Legal Assistance to Pollution Victims in China at...
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    Phon's Ban Tha Maphrao community were the recipients of the 2018 Mechai Viravaidya Award. The award, funded by the Stock Exchange of Thailand Foundation...
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  • individual and collective solutions. Notable guests have included Mechai Viravaidya, Riane Eisler, Paul Ehrlich, Alan Weisman, Naomi Oreskes, William...
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  • Center for the Prevention and Control of AIDS. He, together with Mechai Viravaidya, won the Prince Mahidol Award in 2009 for this work. He later served...
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  • Population and Community Development Association and its founder, Mechai Viravaidya, Ethiopian water projects carried out by A Glimmer of Hope Foundation...
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  • than the national prevalence for HIV. In the late 1980s Thai senator Mechai Viravaidya inaugurated a highly visible condom distribution campaign. At the...
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    was started by International House alumnus Khun Mechai Viravaidya.[citation needed] Khun Mechai Viravaidya http://www.mechaifoundation.org/ Mr. Leigh Clifford...
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    Mayor of London (1977), Member of the European Parliament (1979–1989) Mechai Viravaidya Thai politician David Wordsworth Western Australian MLA (Lib) (1971–1989)...
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  • Foundation (NIST Foundation). Former chairs of the NIST Foundation include Mechai Viravaidya and Pridiyathorn Devakula, and the current chair is Sarath Ratanavadi...
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  • International 1997 Elizabeth Aguire de Calderón Sol Toshio Kuroda Mechai Viravaidya El Salvador Japan Thailand 1998 Hugh H. Wynter Sabiny Elders Association...
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    studied abroad in Bangkok, Thailand where she volunteered with the Mechai Viravaidya Foundation for a semester. After college, Perez lived in Maastricht...
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  • Kingdom Medicine 53 Wiwat Rojanapithayakorn Thailand Public health 54 Mechai Viravaidya Thailand Public health 55 2010 Robert E. Black United States Public...
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  • John Riber (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania) Steve Smith (Paonia) CO Khun Mechai Viravaidya (Bangkok, Thailand) Batilloi Warritay (Freetown, Sierra Leone) Website...
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  • micro-loan system Muhammad Yunus, Thailand's premier family planner Mechai Viravaidya, and The Miracle Foundation, among many others. The film underlines...
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