Michèle Barzach

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Michèle Barzach (born July 11, 1943 in Casablanca , Morocco ) is a French politician and gynecologist . From 1986 to 1988 she was Minister of Health in the Chirac II cabinet .

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Michèle Barzach was born on July 11, 1943 in Casablanca . After secondary school in Morocco, she began studying medicine in Paris and became a gynecologist . From 1970 she practiced in the French capital for 15 years.

In March 1986 she became Minister of Health in the cabinet of the then Prime Minister Jacques Chirac in the cabinet Chirac II during the cohabitation with President François Mitterrand .

During her tenure as Minister of Health, she was confronted with the widespread prevalence of the immune deficiency disease AIDS . One of the measures that Barzach took was a law that allowed the advertising of condoms , which had previously been banned . They were also responsible for the consequences of a massive scandal about infections caused by HIV-contaminated blood products , which has been shaking the French public since 1985 . Her mandate ended in May 1988 with the dissolution of the Chirac cabinet after Mitterrand won the presidential election . In the subsequent Rocard I cabinet , Claude Evin was her successor as Minister of Health.

On June 5, 1988, she was elected as a member of the 13th Paris constituency in the French National Assembly, to which she belonged until December 6, 1990 as a member of the RPR faction. From 1989 to 1995 she was city councilor of Paris and deputy mayor of the city under Mayor Chirac. She became a member of the European Parliament in July 1989 , but resigned from her mandate after just over three months.

After leaving the Paris City Council in 1995, she left politics and worked in the humanitarian health sector, where she took on strategic tasks, particularly for the aid organization Doctors of the World . In 1998 she took over the chairmanship of the Fondation GlaxoSmithKline , a foundation that was set up by the French subsidiary of the British pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline . The aim of the foundation is to improve health care for women and children in sub-Saharan Africa . In 2010 she became an expert on the administrative board of the French UNICEF committee, and from 2012 to 2015 she was chairman of the committee.

Works

  • Le paravent des égoïsmes . Odile Jacob, Paris 1989 (315 pp.).
  • Vérités et tabous . Éditions du Seuil, Paris 1994 (212 pages).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Michèle Barzach - biography. In: gala.fr . Retrieved June 21, 2020 (French).
  2. ↑ Eric Favereau: Le procès du sang contaminé: “Médecins et politiques n'ont pas le sida au sérieux”. In: liberation.fr . March 9, 1999, accessed June 21, 2020 (French).
  3. ↑ Michèle Barzach. In: Tables nominatives des interventions devant l'Assemblée nationale. National Assembly (France) , accessed June 21, 2020 (French).
  4. ↑ Michèle Barzach, France. In: MPs. European Parliament , accessed June 21, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Barzach, Michèle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician and gynecologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Casablanca , Morocco