Mrs Chantal Biya granted audience to a delegation of Total Foundation on Friday.

Cameroon’s First Lady, Chantal Biya, on Friday January 27 at the Oriental Pavilion of the Unity Palace has discussed about potential future projects between the First Lady’s Foundation and the Total Foundation. This was during an audience the First Lady granted to a delegation of members from Total Foundation headed by its Delegate General, Catherine Ferrant. The latter was accompanied by the 2008 Nobel Prize winner in Medicine, Professor Françoise Barre-Sinoussi, who is also the Special Adviser to the Total Foundation on issues related to HIV.  

Both delegations discussed ways to improve the healthcare given to children at the Chantal Biya Foundation as well as future projects of Total Foundation which the First Lady would like to implement. After a one-and-a-half-hour discussion, Prof Françoise Barre-Sinoussi stepped out of the Oriental Pavilion visibly happy. She told pressmen “it was an opportunity for her to congratulate Mrs Chantal Biya for the numerous actions she is carrying out through her foundation to reduce infant mortality and ameliorate maternal health”.  

Prof Françoise Barre-Sinoussi said after the construction of the structure that hosts the Day Care Paediatric and Oncology Units at the Chantal Biya Foundation, which is the result of a fruitful partnership between the Chantal Biya Foundation and the Total Foundation, they will continue to work with the First Lady’s foundation to give better healthcare to Cameroonians.

The Total delegation informed the First Lady about another project which they are going to support in Cameroon in the areas of education, information and counselling of truck drivers on all Sexually Transmitted Infectious (STIs) along specific highways in the country. The project is still at its commencement stage but with time Total Foundation and the Chantal Biya Foundation will develop it with the support of multi-partners in Cameroon.