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2015
Dr Andrew Reid - Champions for Life, East Africa
Dr Reid has shown Visionary and Innovative Leadership, influencing the professional practice of medicine and the public’s image of healthcare and HIV/AIDS through excellence in leadership since 1999 when he moved from his country of birth New Zealand to practice medicine in Zimbabwe. He exemplifies selflessness and unwavering commitment in the HIV/AIDS domain and is clearly recognized as a role model in the medical profession by both peers and junior doctors alike. He is a lead researcher in Africa’s largest research study of HIV/AIDS, the DART Program (Development of AntiRetroviral Therapy) alongside Professor JG Hakim; and is also an exceptional lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe’s medical school.
In 2005 Dr Reid founded Champions For Life which is a faith-based PSS-psychosocial-spiritual program for children, adolescents, and young adults who are infected or affected by HIV/AIDS. In 2005. Today, once every 3 months, Champions For Life Day Seminars are held across 11 African nations. These events see as many as 100 -600 children infected and infected by HIV come together with leaders from the community, health clinics and even business community for a day where barriers are broken down and they receive the psychosocial spiritual support that they need. During the day seminar the children enjoy dramas, games and receive a hot meal and at the end are taken to a central bus terminus where they are each given bus fare to get home. Dr. Reid and his exceptional team of leaders ran such a program in one of the toughest African economies before they decided to expand into the SADC region. Today more than 15, 000 children from 11 African nations, coming from poor marginalized backgrounds have been reached and served thanks to Champions For Life.
We congratulate Dr. Reid and his friends for their remarkable and ongoing achievements giving thanks to God for the many lives touched through his love and commitment.
In 2015 we received 7 fasntastic nominations, each worthy of recognition:
- St Stephen’s Community Health Dept Delhi http://www.sshchd.org/
- Dr Baha Hembrom – established hospital in rural India - Nagra in Ballia district of Uttar Pradesh
- Dr.Anil Cherian and the ICMDA National Institute of Health Sciences – Jonglei, SouthSudan- currently located in Kampala www.nihsj.org
- HealthServe Singapore – guest worker health work and advocacy http://www.healthserve.org.sg/
- Keshab Nepali – Nepal Community worker for women who are trafficked/ sold for sex
- Sunil Khadka and DHERSEC – disability work Nepal https://www.facebook.com/sunil.khadka.522
- Dr Andrew Reid – Champions for Life, Zimbabwe http://celebrate.org/champions-for-life
