Morocco King Gives Donation to Ivorian National Programme against AIDS

Abidjan – King Mohammed VI conducted Tuesday at the University Hospital Centre (CHU) of Yopougon in Abidjan, in the presence of the Ivorian Prime Minister Daniel Kablan Duncan, to the delivery of a royal donation of two tons of medicines to treat opportunistic infections associated with AIDS, for the benifit of Ministry of Health and the Fight against AIDS.

This royal gift is composed of two tons of medicines to treat opportunistic diseases and infections associated with AIDS. The lot includes three families of drugs, ie 800 boxes antiviral, antibacterial 10,700 boxes and 22,400 antifungal boxes.

This royal gift offered by the Mohammed VI Foundation for Sustainable Development, is fully in line with the vision of His Majesty King Mohammed VI, who continues to work to provide a humanist content to Morocco’s solidarity with African countries and to South-South cooperation, through the launch of a host of programs to assist disadvantaged populations of the continent.

The royal gift that gives a human dimension to the royal visit to Côte d’Ivoire is another consecration of the fruitful and exemplary cooperation uniting Morocco and Ivory Coast in the area of ​​health and medical and paramedical training.

It also reflects the determination of the Sovereign to contribute to the progress and prosperity of the brother Ivorian people, to the establishment of a strategic partnership, multifaceted and determined between the two countries, and to mobilize the full potential in order to achieve the objectives of sustainable human development in this brother and friend countries.

On this occasion the technical data on the components of this gift were presented to HM the King.