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WHO Representative for Lebanon visits Chinese ambassador
10 October 2018 – Dr Iman Shankiti, WHO Representative for Lebanon, had a courtesy visit to H.E Mr Wang Kejian, Ambassador of China in Lebanon, on Monday 8 October 2018. During the meeting, Dr Shankiti presented materials produced by WHO Lebanon funded through the contributions received in earlier years from the People’s Republic of China. H.E....
Measles in Lebanon
29 May 2018 – Despite the availability of a safe, effective and free vaccine in the primary health care centres and dispensaries, Lebanon remains endemic to measles virus (genotype D8) and outbreaks are expected periodically every 4 to 5 years. Measles outbreaks pose a serious challenge to the global WHO elimination efforts. Data show an...
Samira, well deserved winner of the World Health Day art competition
Samira Hussein Yehya from Tebnin High School shows off her winning entry with Dr Gabriele Riedner, WHO Representative to Lebanon7 May 2018 – Samira Hussein Yehya from Tebnin High School today received a certificate of merit, signed by the WHO Regional Director, and an award from Dr Gabriele Riedner, WHO Representative to Lebanon. Samira was one...
Launch of Public Support Observatory
Front row: Dr Jaouad Mahjour, acting WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, Mr Ghassan Hasbani, H.E. the Minister of Public Health, Dr Fadlo Khuri, President, American University of Beirut. Back row: Dr Gabriele Riedner, WHO Representative, Dr Walid Ammar, Director-General of Health, Professor Iman Nuwayhid, Dean Faculty of Health...
WHO support to Lebanon: briefing for partners
WHO cholera risk assessment mission, informal settlement of Syrian refugees, Bekaa, Lebanon. Photo credit: WHO/O. Maher WHO, while engaging with health partners in all aspects of the health sector response, will focus its support on filling service gaps (primarily medications), improving service delivery and on building capacity of health system...
Japan supports chronic care in Lebanon through WHO
Representatives of WHO, the chronic care centre and YMCA, with the Minister of Public Health (fourth from left) during a press conference26 October 2016, Beirut – The Government of Japan is supporting WHO's country office in Lebanon with a grant of US$ 2.9 million to improve health care for chronic medical conditions in Lebanon. The project...
WHO support for mental health care in Lebanon
23 October 2016 – As part of its work on mental health care in Lebanon, WHO supported the Ministry of Public Health in conducting various training workshops on mental health, funded by the European Union under the Neighbourhood Initiative. A total of 102 health care staff have been trained so far. In line with the Ministry's efforts to integrate...
World Immunization Week 2016: Close the immunization gap
A health worker carrying the box of vaccines in an informal tented settlement World Immunization Week – celebrated in the last week of April – aims to promote the use of vaccines to protect people of all ages against vaccine preventable diseases. Immunization saves millions of lives and is widely recognized as one of the world’s most successful and...
WHO continues its support to health system resilience
Beirut, 25 March 2016 - Boxes of medications delivered to the Ministry of Public Health warehouse in KarantinaThe European Union (EU) continues its support to WHO to reinforce health system resilience through the EU neighbourhood project “Enhancing access to noncommunicable diseases and mental health services at the level of primary health care...
Shouldering the care of refugees
Amira 54 is a refugee living in Lebanon who has life-threatening kidney disease requiring 3-hour dialysis twice a week. WHO/P. BalladelliAmira, aged 54, is one of 1.2 million Syrian refugees who have fled to Lebanon with her husband and family. Life as a refugee is hard but for Amira it is even harder. She has a life-threatening kidney disease...
