The World Health Organization (“WHO”) has awarded the 2010 Dr LEE Jong-wook Memorial Prize for Public Health (“the award”) to Action for AIDS, Singapore (“AfA”).

The award, in recognition of AfA’s outstanding contributions in HIV/AIDS education, care and advocacy, consists of a plaque and an amount of US$85, 000. It will be presented to Professor Roy Chan, founder and President of AfA, on 20 May 2010 by the President of the Sixty-third World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland.

Dr Lee Jong-wook, a national of the Republic of Korea, was the ex-Director-General of WHO and a prominent public health and HIV/AIDS advocate. He passed away in 2006 and the Dr LEE Jong-wook Memorial Prize for Public Health was established in 2008 by the South Korean government in Dr Lee’s memory and is administered by WHO.

The award is given to persons, institutions, governmental or nongovernmental organizations that have made an outstanding contribution in the areas of research into and prevention, treatment and control of HIV/AIDS; research into and control of communicable diseases; or control of neglected tropical diseases. AfA was nominated by the Ministry of Health for the award this year.

Read the full press release on afa.org.sg.