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Bulletin mensuel bilingue d'informations... N° 24 - juin 2015
Cabinet Civil de la Présidence de la République du Cameroun
Récépissé de déclaration N° 00000030 / RDD / J06 / BASC du 9 juillet 2012
Directeur de Publication : Martin BELINGA EBOUTOU
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# Chantal BIYA Ambassadrice Spéciale de l'ONUSIDA
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20 May 2015 The Symphony of Unity and Peace
Le Temps des Réalisations
EDITORIAL
# The Moment of Coronation
Martin BELINGA EBOUTOU
Director of the Civil Cabinet of the Presidency of the Republic
There are rewards which fly and fall like meteorites as if by chance on some persons. The decision by UNAIDS to make Madam Chantal BIYA one of their Special Ambassadors is not one of such. The eyes of the First Lady have always been full of compassion for persons infected with HIV-AIDS in our country. That this appointment is normal, almost a due... Yes, even the wind can testify and pay tribute to the First Lady of Cameroon.
There is recognition that is conferred on some personalities and some mouths will question: 'Why him? First of all, who is he?'. But the distinction received by the First Lady of Cameroon is not that type, it is very obvious, just as obvious as rainfall. Madam Chantal BIYA has rekindled the dreams of several mothers who were infected with HIV-AIDS. In her permanent humanitarian endeavours, she has spread her goodwill so as to give information and treatment to pregnant women living with the virus. She has always known how to overcome the impossible, sometimes putting herself in an imprudent situation so that their children can be born and grow in good health.
Like a river, a current, she has brought her advices, her availability, her know-how, her total being to push back this terrible disease by prevention. Her will, always as powerful as an immortal being, has won several obstacles that beset the creation in 1994 of the Chantal BIYA Foundation, an achievement with
crystalline reputation, which carters for, amongst others, the prevention of mother-to-child transmission and the handling of children with AIDS...Its efficiency led to the award in 2006 of the Special Consultative Status by the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. Besides that, is it not Madam Chantal BIYA who sensitised, several years ago, the other African First Ladies on the matter? Is she not the one who initiated and presided over the very first meeting of First Ladies of the continent on this issue? Is she not the one who, in those yester-years, convinced them to become, in their respective countries, the ambassadors of this noble fight? Is she not, finally, the founder of the association 'African Synergies against AIDS and Suffering' which is today shining throughout the continent?