Dear All, we would like to introduce an AINA committee "Dr. Asavari Herwadkar" from India to you.
Dr Asavari Herwadkar MD is MacArthur Fellow and recipient of Ma-Bapu Gandhi National award. She is a microbiologist and immunologist researcher, a physician and educationist, and social worker -activist by profession. Inspired by her experiences, as a research fellowship at the Institute of Human Virology(USA) and feeling the plight of the poor and the sick, in 2002 Dr Asavari established the charitable trust -Ojus Medical Institute. Under her leadership Ojus Medical Institute has been instrumental in establishing multidimensional urban and rural health centers, which include HIV care and prevention , women and children’s projects and others. Ojus Medical Institute is launching with Mumbai Municipal Corporation, an Institution in Mumbai, India.
Dr Asavari is an empanelled research consultant to USAID and Oxfam GB and also has been invited as a temporary advisor to UNAIDS. She is on the committee of ‘Asian Interfaith Network on HIV and AIDS’(AINA) and its India coordinator. She conceptualized and facilitated, the 1st Global Hindu Leaders Caucus on HIV and AIDS, organized by AINA, Art of Living and UNAIDS in India.
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