Former Minister of Health Michèle Barzach Died at the Age of 83
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Michèle Barzach, a gynecologist and former French Minister of Health, died on Monday, October 26, in Paris, at the age of 83. A member of Jacques Chirac's government since 1986, she played an important role in confronting the HIV/AIDS epidemic, which was advancing in the country and causing an increasing number of deaths in the 1980s. Death was announced by her daughter to Agence France-Presse (AFP). Michele Barzach and Jacques Chirac MICHEL CLE…
Michèle Barzach, disappeared Monday, October 26, 2026 at the age of 83, was one of the most popular members of Jacques Chirac's cohabitation government, from 1986 to 1988, in the midst of an AIDS epidemic.
Gynecologist and psychoanalyst of training, the former minister was also president of UNICEF France from 2012 to 2015.
Michèle Barzach died on Monday in Paris at the end of the morning "following a stroke", she said. As a minister, she had launched the first public policies to combat AIDS, including the passing of a law authorizing advertising for condoms. Michèle Barzach, a training gynaecologist, was born in 1943 in Casablanca, in a Jewish family. In the 1980s, she became a national delegate for social affairs in the Rassemblement pour la République (RPR), the…
Michèle Barzach was a member of Jacques Chirac's cohabitation government between 1986 and 1988.
Former Minister Michèle Barzach died at the age of 83. Minister of Health in the second Chirac government, from 1986 to 1988, this gynecologist by profession had been president of Unicef France from 2012 to 2015.
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