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J.V.R. Prasada Rao

Prasada Rao is a former Health Secretary with the Government of India and a former Special Envoy of United Nations Secretary-General on AIDS. He hails from a family of poets and scholars in Andhra Pradesh, India, and has a distinguished academic career with post-graduation in Nuclear Physics from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam. He joined the Indian Administrative Service, the premier civil service of India, and held important positions at the state, district and central government level. He has spent his last 7 years of public service in the Health Ministry and drove major policy initiativesRead More...

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Celebrating Small Victories

Books by J.V.R. Prasada Rao

A firsthand account of the courageous and determined effort, helmed by the author, to combat the devastation caused by the AIDS epidemic in India and later in Asia Pacific region. Fighting immeasurable odds at a time when India carried the second largest disease burden in the world, the author steered the ship of the Indian Government’s response through its most critical stage. The story continues as the author takes the reins of UNAIDS, the Joint UN program

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Prasada Rao is a former Health Secretary with the Government of India and a former Special Envoy of United Nations Secretary-General on AIDS. He hails from a family of poets and scholars in Andhra Pradesh, India, and has a distinguished academic career with post-graduation in Nuclear Physics from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam. He joined the Indian Administrative Service, the premier civil service of India, and held important positions at the state, district and central government level. He has spent his last 7 years of public service in the Health Ministry and drove major policy initiatives. He moved from the government to the UN system to lead the joint UN programme on AIDS in Asia Pacific region. As a science graduate he believed in scientific evidence and strove to provide that for AIDS responses in India and Asia Pacific region. He could easily associate himself with the communities who are central to the pandemic and worked relentlessly on their empowerment.

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