Morocco succeeded, over the past few years, in asserting itself as a model for the Maghreb, Africa and the Middle-East in terms of progress made in the disease treatment and prevention, Sidibé told MAP following a meeting with HRH Princess Lalla Salma at the UN's headquarters, on the sidelines of the high-level meeting on AIDS (June 8-10).

    The Kingdom is represented in this meeting by HRH Princess Lalla Salma.

    The Executive Director hailed HM King Mohammed VI's personal commitment to this matter.

    He also applauded the action by HRH Princess Lalla Salma, Chairwoman of the Lalla Salma Association for the Fight against Cancer and goodwill Ambassador of World Health Organization (WHO), which bears the message of the fight against AIDS.

    The meeting was attended by Health Minister Yasmina Baddou, Morocco's permanent representative to the UN Mohamed Loulichki, chairwoman of the Moroccan Association to fight AIDS Hakima Himmich and chairwoman of the pan-African organization to fight AIDS (OPALS) Nadia Bezad.