{"id":14017,"date":"2018-04-02T10:30:42","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T14:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=14017"},"modified":"2018-04-02T10:30:42","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T14:30:42","slug":"sr-prince-ramsey-wins-2018-united-nations-population-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/sr-prince-ramsey-wins-2018-united-nations-population-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Sr Prince Ramsey wins 2018 United Nations Population Award"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sir Prince Ramsey, a family physician from Antigua and Barbuda, was today announced as the individual winner of the 2018\u00a0United Nations Population Award<\/a>. Non-governmental organizations Save a Child’s Heart (Israel) and The Guttmacher Institute (United States) were announced as the institutional winners.<\/p>

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Established by the General Assembly in 1981, the award recognizes outstanding achievements in population and health. The Committee for the United Nations Population Award, which made the selections, is chaired by Ghana, and includes Antigua and Barbuda, Bangladesh, Benin, Gambia, Haiti, Iran, Israel, Paraguay and Poland.<\/p>\n

Sir Prince Ramsey<\/u><\/p>

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Dr. Ramsey is credited with improving health care for thousands of people in disadvantaged communities of Antigua and Barbuda. His achievements include advocating for HIV\/AIDS services and support in the 1980s. He is today still widely recognized throughout the Caribbean for his expertise and leadership in the medical and social response to the epidemic. He also pioneered prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and the treatment HIV among pregnant women in the region.<\/p>

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Save a Child\u2019s Heart<\/u><\/p>\n

Established in 1996,\u00a0Save a Child’s Heart<\/a>\u00a0is a world leader in providing life-saving cardiac surgery for children from developing countries. It has so far served 4,400 children from 55 countries.<\/p>

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The Guttmacher Institute<\/u><\/p>\n

The Guttmacher Institute<\/a>\u00a0is a leading research and policy organization that advances sexual and reproductive health and rights in the United States and globally.<\/p>

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