Past Award Recipients
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2006 Nominees List
Nomination Criteria
Past Award Recipients
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Jonathan Mann Award for Global Health and Human Rights |
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Past Award Recipients
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2005 - Prof. Abdel Mohammad Gerais | 2004 - Dr. Sima Samar
2003 - Mr. Zackie Achmat and Dr. Frenk Guni
2002 - Dr. Ruchama Marton and Mr. Salah Haj Yehya
2001 - Dr. Gao Yaojie | 2000 - Dr. Flora Brovina and Dr. Vjosa Dobruna
1999 - Dr. Cynthia Maung
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 2005 Award Recipient
Prof. Abdel Mohammad Gerais
Professor Abdel Mohammad Gerais is the founder of the Sudan Fertility Care Association and faculty at the University of Khartoum Medical School. For more than 30 years, Dr. Gerais has worked tirelessly to increase access to reproductive health services to those most in need, and advocated on behalf of reproductive rights to often resistant government officials, something many in his profession in the Sudan would not have dared do. He established the Sudan Fertility Care Association (SFCA) in 1975 in response to the need for family planning services and education. The center provides a broad-spectrum approach to improving women's health, and includes pre- and post-natal care, immunizations, gynecological services, oral rehydration, and contraceptives.
Humanitarian Awards for NGOs in Africa - news article
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 2004 Award Recipient
Dr. Sima Samar
Dr. Sima Samar founded and directs the Shuhada Organization, the oldest Afghan non-governmental organization (NGO) operating in the region and the largest woman-led NGO. Dr. Samar has become well-known as Afghanistan's first Minister of Women's Affairs and now as chair of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission. For 14 years, the Shuhada Organization has implemented innovative programs in health, education, construction, relief and income generation to improve the lives of Afghan women and girls.
Afghanistan Human Rights Activist Wins Mann Award - Council press release
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2003 Award Recipients
Mr. Zackie Achmat and Dr. Frenk Guni
Through his work with the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), Zackie Achmat has worked to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS throughout the spectrum of South African society. Zackie has used his own HIV+ condition as a platform upon which to advocate for equity and illustrate that health care is a basic human right.
Dr. Frenk Guni is a founding member of the Zimbabwe Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (ZNNP+), serving the development and growth of the network since 1992. The network serves more than a million HIV-positive people across the country.
Walking in Mann's Shoes - HealthLink issue 121 article
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2002 Award Recipients
Dr. Ruchama Marton and Mr. Salah Haj Yehya
Dr. Marton is the founder and president of Physicians for Human Rights-Israel. Mr. Yehya is an Israeli-Palestinian health care worker who has been the coordinating of the mobile health clinics PHR have conducted in the occupied territories of the West Bank since 1988. Both Mr. Yehya and Dr. Marton go on these mobile clinics, along with other volunteer physicians and health care workers, facing the hostility of border crossing and the heartbreak of children, women and men needing specialized care beyond what the clinic can provide.
Israeli-Palestinian Team Wins Mann Health and Human Rights Award - HealthLink issue 115 article
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 2001 Award Recipient
Dr. Gao Yaojie
Dr. Gao Yaojie, a retired gynecologist from the Henan province of China, has been involved in AIDS work since 1996. She came out of retirement when she discovered that the disease was spreading rapidly throughout the Henan province, and she deduced that the practice of blood selling on black market was a main cause of the problem. She has worked tirelessly with severely limited resources to care for those living with HIV/AIDS as well as spread the message of prevention. She is a compassionate physician who is also a living tribute to the importance of using education to empower people as a tool for prevention.
Chinese AIDS Heroine Receives Jonathan Mann Award - HealthLink issue 109 article
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2000 Award Recipients
Dr. Flora Brovina and Dr. Vjosa Dobruna
Dr. Flora Brovina is the founder and director of the League of Albanian women in Kosovo, and at the time the award was presented, Dr. Brovina was imprisoned in Serbia. The world community dedicated to health and human rights celebrated her release on November 1, 2000 after 18 months of imprisonment on charges that she committed terrorist acts by helping refugees in the conflict in Kosovo. Her friend, colleague and co-recipient Dr. Vjosa Dobruna is the head of Kosovo's Center for Protection of Women and Children, and she has concentrated her activities on the psychosocial needs of women and children victims of war crimes.
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 1999 Award Recipient
Dr. Cynthia Maung
Known by many as "the Mother Teresa of Southeast Asia," Dr. Cynthia Maung has committed her life to healing victims of human rights abuses in her native Burma. Amid the violence and social chaos of the Burmese civil war, Dr. Maung's clinic located in the jungle of northwestern Thailand, developed into a thriving facility. It serves more than 20,000 refugees annually, offering free medical services, a feeding center for malnourished children, mobile medical teams, income generation programs for young women and men and a home for children orphaned by the conflict.
Dr. Cynthia Maung To Receive Jonathan Mann Award - HealthLink issue 98 article
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