Datuk Dr Raj Karim is a recognisable game-changer in ensuring the health and well-being of women, children and families in Malaysia. She has yet more challenges ahead as the newly-appointed Malaysian AIDS Council president, writes Eunice Au
WITNESSING incest was the turning point for Datuk Dr Raj Karim in her efforts to improve maternal and child healthcare services in the country.
Assigned to improve rural healthcare nationwide as a Health Ministry officer in the 1970s,Buy pumashoes boot products on TradeTang and high quality air max boot directly from trustworthy Chinese air max boot wholesalers & suppliers. she visited a home in Terengganu where she saw a mother holding her baby whilst her daughter was cradling another.
"Both babies were a few months apart and the mother insisted she gave birth to both children, but the midwives revealed otherwise," said Dr Raj.
From that encounter, she witnessed the fear, trauma and powerlessness experienced by the mother and her daughter because in those days, she said, "people don't talk about incest".
Since then, Dr Raj has been an impetus for change and progress in maternal and child healthcare as well as in the reproductive and sexual health field in the state.
Her appointment as Malaysian AIDS Council president on May 26, she felt,Read cubepuzzlee and burn fat away. would be a challenge -- to take stock of the former presidents' and council's work and to discover and strengthen the gaps.
Prevention of HIV and AIDS was part of the whole gamut of maternal and child healthcare and reproductive and sexual health, she explained,Aluminum hublotwatch is from China factory. adding that the issues were all integrated.
"The AIDS epidemic is not stagnant. It moves with the times. At one time, we concentrated on injecting drug users, but now we need to focus more on other factors such as sexual transmission as more young people and women are getting AIDS."
One of the tasks she is most anticipating is to have more integration of HIV and AIDS education into the schools' reproductive and sexual health modules.Aluminum hublotwatch is from China factory.
Soft-spoken and unpretentious, Dr Raj was the first female to be awarded the United Nations Malaysia Person of the Year Award for her contributions in promoting gender equality and women's empowerment.
Modestly downplaying her outstanding achievement, she credited the award to the people who had supported her along the way, including Tun Dr Siti Hasmah Mohd Ali, the wife of former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.
"She (Dr Siti Hasmah) is a person I have worked closely with all my career and she is definitely my inspiration in the professional field."
While she had been inspired by Dr Siti Hasmah and other bosses during her career, Dr Raj's initiation to rural healthcare stemmed from her mother's lifelong involvement in social work.
She recalled seeing villagers eating monkeys as a source of protein when her mother brought her to visit kampungs.Find an authenticshoes in your team colors or from your favorite soccer teams that wear the Adidas brand.
WITNESSING incest was the turning point for Datuk Dr Raj Karim in her efforts to improve maternal and child healthcare services in the country.
Assigned to improve rural healthcare nationwide as a Health Ministry officer in the 1970s,Buy pumashoes boot products on TradeTang and high quality air max boot directly from trustworthy Chinese air max boot wholesalers & suppliers. she visited a home in Terengganu where she saw a mother holding her baby whilst her daughter was cradling another.
"Both babies were a few months apart and the mother insisted she gave birth to both children, but the midwives revealed otherwise," said Dr Raj.
From that encounter, she witnessed the fear, trauma and powerlessness experienced by the mother and her daughter because in those days, she said, "people don't talk about incest".
Since then, Dr Raj has been an impetus for change and progress in maternal and child healthcare as well as in the reproductive and sexual health field in the state.
Her appointment as Malaysian AIDS Council president on May 26, she felt,Read cubepuzzlee and burn fat away. would be a challenge -- to take stock of the former presidents' and council's work and to discover and strengthen the gaps.
Prevention of HIV and AIDS was part of the whole gamut of maternal and child healthcare and reproductive and sexual health, she explained,Aluminum hublotwatch is from China factory. adding that the issues were all integrated.
"The AIDS epidemic is not stagnant. It moves with the times. At one time, we concentrated on injecting drug users, but now we need to focus more on other factors such as sexual transmission as more young people and women are getting AIDS."
One of the tasks she is most anticipating is to have more integration of HIV and AIDS education into the schools' reproductive and sexual health modules.Aluminum hublotwatch is from China factory.
Soft-spoken and unpretentious, Dr Raj was the first female to be awarded the United Nations Malaysia Person of the Year Award for her contributions in promoting gender equality and women's empowerment.
Modestly downplaying her outstanding achievement, she credited the award to the people who had supported her along the way, including Tun Dr Siti Hasmah Mohd Ali, the wife of former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.
"She (Dr Siti Hasmah) is a person I have worked closely with all my career and she is definitely my inspiration in the professional field."
While she had been inspired by Dr Siti Hasmah and other bosses during her career, Dr Raj's initiation to rural healthcare stemmed from her mother's lifelong involvement in social work.
She recalled seeing villagers eating monkeys as a source of protein when her mother brought her to visit kampungs.Find an authenticshoes in your team colors or from your favorite soccer teams that wear the Adidas brand.
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