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Detailed explanation-1: -India wins UN award for its initiative to control and prevent hypertension under National Health Mission.

Detailed explanation-2: -In a significant achievement and recognition to country’s efforts against hypertension, India has won a UN award for its initiative to control and prevent hypertension under the government’s National Health Mission.

Detailed explanation-3: -India Hypertension Control Initiative (IHCI), a nationwide primary health care intervention under the National Health Mission, was awarded the 2022 UN Interagency Task Force and the WHO Special Programme on Primary Health Care Award at a UN General Assembly side-event held on 21 September 2022 in New York.

Detailed explanation-4: -The correct answer is Baba Amte. Baba Amte was the only Indian to have won the United Nations Award in the field of human rights.

Detailed explanation-5: -Trivia: So far, only one Indian personality – Baba Amte has been awarded United Nations Human Rights Prize. Baba Amte was given this prize in 1988.