HE Marisol Touraine

HE Marisol Touraine

HE Ms. Marisol Touraine is a senior member of the Conseil d'Etat and an international consultant for social policies. She was elected as the chair of Unitaid’s executive board in June 2019 and is France's former minister of health. After studying at the Ecole Normale Supérieure for a degree in economics and social sciences, Marisol Touraine studied at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris and at the prestigious Harvard University in the United States. Her support to authorize and assure financial coverage for innovative preventive HIV treatments has been particularly recognized, and her fight for neutral cigarette packaging was acknowledged with a WHO prize in 2016.

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Opinion: International community holds the key to ending cervical cancer

Opinion: International community holds the key to ending cervical cancer

over 5 years ago // Global health

One of the most preventable and curable forms of cancer remains the leading cause of the disease among women in 42 countries, many of them in sub-Saharan Africa.