Massimo Barra – Standing Commission of the Red Cross Red and Red Crescent
Massimo Barra is one of the first medical doctors in Italy to take care of drug users since 1974 at the Social Diseases Centre of Rome and then founding in 1976 Villa Maraini, the Foundation where he has been Director for more than 30 years. Red Cross Volunteer since the age of 8, Barra was National President of Italian Red Cross Youth for 8 years. Furthemore he was National Chairman of 70.000 active Volunteers in 1050 locations in Italy for 21 years long. On December 11 2005, Dr. Massimo Barra was elected National President of the Italian Red Cross with 623 votes out of 637. In Geneva at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Massimo Barra was from 1974 to 1982 President of Youth Commission, from 1982 to 1990 President of Development Commission, from 2004 to 2005 Vice-President, and has been again elected in November 2005 President of the Development Commission; he has taken part in more than 350 missions which have brought in more than one hundred Countries. Chief of “Madonna del Tufo” Hospital (1986 – 2005), President of ERNA, European Red Cross Network on AIDS, from 1998 to 2003, in 2003 board member of the Global Fund (GFATM), he his author of hundreds of pubblications and articles concerning Red Cross, substance abuse, First Aid and AIDS. On november 2007 he has been elected Vice President of the Standing Commission of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent.
Albert Schweitzer Institute
Gorbachev Foundation
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