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Copyright 2004 World Vision Inc. |  | Dr. Milton Amayun is World Vision International’s Senior HIV/AIDS Program Representative and Advisor. Amayun’s primary responsibility will be to represent World Vision’s global HIV/AIDS program to multilateral donor and professional communities for funding. The program, currently known as The Hope Initiative, will be the focus of Amayun’s efforts at obtaining resources from international public and private sources, like the World Bank, the Global Fund against AIDS, TB, and Malaria, and large private foundations.
A family physician, Amayun holds a Master of Public Health from Harvard University, a bachelor’s degree in Zoology and a doctor of medicine degree from the University of the Philippines. He has in-depth training and experience with child survival and maternal health, public health programs in humanitarian emergencies, and HIV/AIDS.
For more than two decades, Amayun has designed, implemented and supervised various health programs in many frontline locations around the world for more than two decades, including the Indo-Chinese refugee crisis in Thailand (1979 to 1981), famine in Somalia (1981), post-Pol Pot recovery in Cambodia, famine and internal displacement in Ethiopia (1984-86), drought in West Africa (1986-88) and the Balkan wars in Eastern Europe (1994-2001).
Previous to his assignment as Senior AIDS Program Representative, Amayun served as the director of international health programs and team leader for the Asia-Pacific and Middle East-Eastern Europe regions for World Vision Relief and Development.
Amayun left World Vision in 1998 to serve as Vice President of International Programs for International Aid. During his tenure there, he established the organization’s International Programs portfolio and opened three new field offices. He also negotiated the first million-dollar grant from the Swedish International Development Agency. He returned to World Vision to take his current position as Senior AIDS Program Representative in the fall of 2001.
His wife, Raija, is also a physician, specializing in pediatrics. They have two sons, Joshua and Jason.
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