Dr. Ramesh Babu, Rayapu has been awarded Dr. B.C.Roy national Award in Socio - Medical relief for the 2006

[Guest guest]

Dear FORUM,

I am in deed very happy to inform the AIDS INDIA e Forum about my greatest

achievement today, that is the Govt of India, Medical Council of India has

declared the highest civilian award in Medical field in India - Sir Dr.B.C.Roy

national award in Socio- medical relief for me today for the year 2006.

This award has given in recognition of the services renderd in the field of

HIV/AIDS prevention and control since 1983. Onbehalf of the people who have died

and living with HIV/AIDS ,I am going to dedicate and recieve this award on July

1st by H.E. the President of India

This prestigious award will be presented by H.E.the President of India in July

1st 2008.

Brief note about dr. rayapu , ramesh babu

Dr. RAYAPU, RAMESH BABU, President and Chief Executive Officer of Blood donors

Organisation for Social Service (BOSS) and its AIDS Branch Centre for

Information, Prevention and Counselling on AIDS (CIPCA), A Registered Charitable

Non-Govt. Voluntary Community Based Organisation it has 400 doctors and 8050

Blood donors as its members. He is also the Chairman, AIDS Prevention Standing

Committee of Indian Medical Association, A.P. State, born on 30.11.1960.

He is a Doctor (MBBS), Lawyer (BL), Psychologist (MSc(Psy)) and Social Worker

(Ph.D. on HIV/AIDS) based at Tirupati, Chittoor District. He is an

internationally recognized expert on HIV/AIDS.

He has been rendering charitable free service to thousands (47,101) of Persons

living with HIV/AIDS since 1983 in A.P. State; through his BOSS & CIPCA

organization. He never had private practice or job, he is doing only charitable

free medical and health service to PLW HIV/AIDS and rural poor people after

completion of his

M.B.B.S. in 1987 (more than 20 years). He has donated his blood 115 times in

23 years of short period (International record). By invitation he has attended

51 International conferences on HIV/AIDS worldwide. His more than 100 Research

papers on STI’s/HIV/AIDS peer reviewed and published in International journals

as Abstracts.

His dedication to the service of the suffering millions of the country has been

widely appreciated and won him awards 31 International awards, 25 National and

State awards and several district awards. From April 1991 to March 2007 Dr.

Rayapu, Ramesh Babu, successfully organised 2237 camps. Out of them 115 were

free rural medical health camps, 25 mass blood donation camps, 221 blood

donation motivation camps and motivated more than 2,11,000 persons to donate

blood so far, 1876 AIDS awareness campaigns conducted.

He gave 2459 lectures on AIDS in different AIDS awareness campaigns in the

state. Trained more than 8,000 Doctors, 1020 para-medical

health workers and NGO representatives from 23 districts of Andhra Pradesh

State (A four weeks training). 200 social health workers, in Chittoor District

and constituted Chittoor AIDS presentation society (CAPS) in 1995

His activities have been witnessed and appreciated by more than 200 officials &

VIPs of the State and country including the Hon’ble Vice-President of India Sri.

Bhairon Singh Shekawat once, Ex-Vice President of India H.E., Late Sri Krishan

Kant thrice, Ex-Governor of A.P., H.E., Dr. C. Rangarajan, twice, Governor of

Mizoram H.E. Sri. A.R. Kohli, twice and Hon’ble, Dr. Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy,

Chief Minister of A.P., once.

He has received two times ( 1991 & 2003)“ Best Doctor ” from the Government of

Andhra Pradesh State.

Honorary Fellowship: Awarded as Sanjaya Lall Fellow by the Oxford University,

United Kingdom in 2007.

International recognition: International Abstracts reviewer for STI’s/HIV/AIDS

International Conferences / Workshops worldwide.

[Editors note: For further details of DR. BC Roy award of ICMR please log on to

the following url.

http://www.mciindia.org/awards/award_bc_roy.htm ]

Thank you very much,

Sincerely,

Dr. Ramesh Babu, Rayapu

President and CEO ,

BOSS & CIPCA organisation ,

Tirupati, Chitoor District ,

AP,India

Cell No. 09848154174

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