The ceremony was marked by the closing of the ALSLC’s ordinary general assembly for 2010, the awarding of national and intertnational prizes for the fight against cancer, the signing of several partnership agreements and the awarding of training certificates.

On this occasion, a film was projected retracing years of assiduous efforts led by the ALSLC in the field of cancer prevention through launching awareness raising campaigns, setting up early cancer detection programmes as well as the building, equipping and humanizing of oncology and diagnostic centers.

The film also showcases the ALSLC’s initiatives to create centers of excellence in Gynecologic Oncology and promote access to medicines.

After the presentation of the moral and financial report, the general assembly of the Association adopted several resolutions and congratulated the ALSLC’s Board of  Directors and the Administration for their steady efforts against cancer.

This year’s international prize was awarded to Dr. Hussein  Abdel-Razzak Gezairy, Director of the World Health Organization’s regional office for the Eastern Mediterranean, for his efforts to fight cancer all over the world.

The national prize went jointly to Soeur Thérèse Garnier and Lahcen Houjr. Thérèse Garnier, who works at the Ibn Rochd oncology center in Casablanca, received the prize in recognition of her social commitment for over 20 years to support cancer patients.

Lahcen Houjir, for his part, is head of the nursing care section at the national oncology institute in Rabat. This prize is meant to honour him for his efforts in terms of training nurses.

On the same occasion, HRH Princess Lalla Salma chaired the signing of several protocol agreements with the ALSLC, including a programme in collaboration with the GlaxoSmithkline (GSK) to facilitate he access of modest income patients to medicines as wemm as another programme to receive the laboratory’s medicine donation meant to treat Moroccan children suffering from cancer.

Another agreement was signed between the ALSLC and the World Alliance against Cancer providing for cooperation in projects in French speaking African countries.

The ALSLC also signed an amendment to the partnership agreement with the Vaudois university hospital in Lausanne, Switzerland, to provide training for more Moroccan doctors.

By the same occasion, HRH Princess Lalla Salma handed certificates to for laureates who undertook training in Psycho-Oncology.