Lotti Latrous

Liselotte "Lotti" Latrous (born 1953) is a Swiss healthcare worker and philanthropist who since the late 1990s has dedicated her life to caring for HIV/AIDS patients and their children in facilities created near Abidjan in the Ivory Coast.

Together with their three children, the couple spent several years in both Saudi Arabia and Egypt where Lotti found work as a volunteer.

As a result of pressure from local inhabitants fearing AIDS infection, facilities were moved to a new location with a dispensary and, in 2002, a hospice where she was able to bring dignity to the dying.

As of late 2019, the centre employed some 80 people, including doctors, nurses, medical specialists and support staff.

[1] In recent years, after her husband was first transferred to Cairo and then retired to Geneva, Lotti Latrous divided her time between life with the family and regular visits to the Ivory Coast.