Chinese health minister, South Africa’s first lady discuss fight against AIDS

Jiang Xingguang

(en.nhfpc.gov.cn)

Updated: 2016-08-06

China's Minister of National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC) Li Bin talked with Thobeka Mabhija, first lady of South Africa, about cooperation efforts for HIV/AIDS prevention and control on July 29 in Beijing.

China's health minister Li Bin talks with First Lady of South Africa Thobeka Mabhija during a meeting on July 29 in Beijing. [Photo/nhfpc.gov.cn]

Li reviewed the long-cherished friendship and bilateral health cooperation between the two countries, especially the anti-AIDS proposal initiated at the Johannesburg Summit during the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation back in 2015.

Li also summarized China's progress in preventing and fighting AIDS over the past few years, and spoke highly of the achievements made in African AIDS control by the foundation led by Mabhija.

Mabhija said that mutual trust and friendship has been fully expressed regarding cooperation in the health sector between the two countries.

She thanked China's first lady Peng Liyuan for her role as a World Health Organization goodwill ambassador to help fight against tuberculosis and AIDS.

The first lady expressed her wish to forge a deeper cooperation with China to improve Africa's war on HIV/AIDS and jointly contribute to the Zero AIDS goal for 2030.