A Thai scientist Krisana Kraisintu who has been working determinedly to address Thailand's HIV and AIDS crisis.

An Indian medical doctor who, together with his wife Mandakini, who set up rural hospitals for marginalized communities in remote India

An Indian medical doctor who, together with her husband Prakash, who set up rural hospitals for marginalized communities in remote India

A Thai orthopedic surgeon and inventor known for his humanitarian activities in providing free prosthetic limbs to impoverished amputees, and for his development of techniques allowing low-cost, high-quality prostheses to be made from local materials

Educated in the United Kingdom and Scotland, Ananda Galappatti devoted himself to addressing the psychosocial consequences of trauma caused by years of war and the 2004 tsunami in Sri Lanka

A blind Korean pastor who founded the Siloam Eye Hospital that helps cure preventive blindness among the poor

A successful US-educated banker in Hong Kong who left his job at the bank to devote himself full-time to China's AIDS crisis

An eye surgeon, devised a suture-less procedure that speeds cataract surgery and reduces patients' recovery time

A committed Thai leader who fought for the rights of disadvantaged sectors of society