Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group, said he was honored to share the Prince Mahidol award with adistinguished group of individuals who have spent many yearsfighting to end the HIV-AIDS epidemic. He said that Thailandwas the first developing country to mount a successful HIVprevention response. Thailand’s successes in AIDS preventionand treatment were not inevitable, neither was its quest foruniversal health coverage. He have learned that investing inpeople is not just the right moral choice, ambitious reformsrequire skillful balancing of competing demands and ahandful of committed people with vision have the power tochange the world.He concludes that lessons areuniversal and timeless that we can achieve great things, ifwe learn from history, and contribute to a lastingevidence-based wisdom.
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