French expert praises morocco's efforts in fighting AIDS

Director of French public interests body "ESTHER," Ms. Anne Petit-Girard praised Morocco's "convincing results" in fighting AIDS and sexually transmissible diseases.

Anne Petit-Girard, who had talks in Rabat on Wednesday with Morocco's Health minister, Cheikh Biadillah, voiced hope to see Morocco benefiting from ESTHER's aid in terms of vocational training, prevention and diseases detection.

Petit-Girard's visit to Morocco aims to prepare for the signing of a partnership agreement between the two countries' health departments, in order to twin Moroccan hospitals and French counterparts in terms of reimbursing medical care of HIV/AIDS related infections.

The agreement will consolidate ties between university hospital Ibn Sina in Rabat and Edouard Herriot hospital in Lyons and between university hospital Ibn Rochd in Casablanca and European hospital Georges Pompidou in Paris.