Peng Liyuan, wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping, on Monday called for closer cooperation between her country and Panama on AIDS prevention as well as women and children affairs.

Peng Liyuan (L), wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping, and World Health Organization goodwill ambassador for tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS and UNESCO special envoy for the advancement of girls' and women's education, and Panamanian First Lady Lorena Castillo Garcia, special ambassador for UNAIDS in Latin America, pose for photos holding colorful paper butterflies, which symbolize the Zero Discrimination campaign, to show their solid support for the global cause against AIDS in Panama City, Panama, Dec. 3, 2018. [Photo: Xinhua/Yan Yan]

eng, who was in Panama City accompanying Xi for a state visit to the Central American country, made the appeal in a meeting with Panamanian First Lady Lorena Castillo Garcia.

The Chinese government attaches great importance to AIDS prevention and treatment and to care of AIDS patients, and has made tremendous efforts and important achievements in those aspects, said Peng, who is also a World Health Organization goodwill ambassador for tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS.

The Chinese side, she added, highly appreciates the enormous work Panama has done in those fields.