2003
WAN Yanhai
Director
Beijing Aizhixing Institute
WAN Yanhai is Founder and Director of the Beijing Aizhixing Institute, the largest AIDS NGO in China that uses health education, research, publishing, and conferences to confront the HIV/AIDS crisis in China. As one of the most prominent leaders in the global campaign against HIV/AIDS, Yanhai launched China's first HIV/AIDS counseling hotline in 1992 while working for China's National Health Education Institute.
The institute works on HIV/AIDS and public health related policy, legal aid and human rights, and community outreach among the most vulnerable population. Yanhai organized several challenging campaigns in China including a national compensation campaign for the victims of HIV infection caused by blood transfusion or blood products, a national working group for the educational rights of people with HIV, hepatitis or other health problems, and a China HIV/AIDS NGO Network.
The 2003 World Fellows
Top political advisors to British Primer Minister Tony Blair and Mexican President Vicente Fox, two African members of parliament, and an Australian Internet entrepreneur are among the 2003 Yale World Fellows. โThe Yale World Fellows Program is building a global network of individuals who are poised to assume leadership roles in their own countries and on the global stage,โ said President Richard C. Levin. โThe accomplishments and experiences of the 2003 World Fellows made them stand out in a pool of hundreds of impressive applicants to the program.โ The Fellows selected for the 2003 program from more than 500 applications representing more than 100 countries also include NGO leaders from...Read More
