Wiwat Rojanapithayakorn is a Thai public health official, born on 25 October 1950, who is known for developing the 100 percent condom program in Thailand in 1989. He first pioneered the program as director of the Office of Communicable Disease Control in Ratchaburi, and continued it while directing the national Center for the Prevention and Control of AIDS. Together with Mechai Viravaidya he won the Prince Mahidol Award in 2009 for this work on HIV prevention. He later led the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS team in Beijing, China. The English Wikipedia article is short, so this entry records only what it states about his career and honours.
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