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Libya: Fighting COVID-19 in times of conflict
20 June 2020 – The World Health Organization has urged all armed groups in Libya to allow humanitarian agencies to obtain access to health care facilities on the ground, especially in the south, to help combat the recent surge in cases of COVID-19, mainly in the south of the country. “Humanitarian agencies must be able to safely enter all areas...
Over quarter of a million children in Libya are at risk from vaccine-preventable diseases
Joint WHO/UNICEF press release Tripoli, 18 May 2020 - The lives and health of over a quarter of a million children under one year of age in Libya are at risk from vaccine-preventable diseases due to critical shortages in vaccine supplies. UNICEF and WHO are raising the alarm over severe vaccine shortages in Libya that are putting more than...
WHO medical supplies address urgent health needs in Libya
Tripoli, 12 May 2020 – Over the past few months, WHO has dispatched over 136 tons of essential health kits to 45 hospitals and health facilities throughout Libya. Items distributed include enough emergency health kits and noncommunicable disease kits to treat almost 650 000 people for 3 months, trauma kits to treat over 4000 wounded patients,...
Joint statement on Libya
OCHA, UNHCR, UNICEF, UNFPA, WFP, WHO, IOM (New York/Geneva/Rome, 13 May 2020) Conflict and the COVID-19 pandemic present a significant threat to life in Libya. The health and safety of the country’s entire population are at risk. Close to 400,000 Libyans have been displaced since the start of the conflict nine years ago – around half of them...
WHO delivers essential health supplies to Tarhouna, Libya, where 200 000 remain trapped due to ongoing hostilities
Tripoli, 10 May 2020 – The World Health Organization has dispatched essential medical supplies, including emergency health, trauma, surgical and noncommunicable disease kits, to the town of Tarhouna, 65 kilometres southeast of Tripoli. Tarhouna has been the scene of intense hostilities over the past month, and more than 3000 people have fled...
Keeping vigilant for COVID-19 in Libya
Tripoli, 2 May 2020 – WHO urges the health authorities in Libya to remain vigilant in the face of the serious health threat posed by COVID-19 in the country. “Now is not the time to lower our guard,” says Ms Elizabeth Hoff, WHO Representative in Libya. “The low numbers being reported must not lull us into a false sense of security. Libya is in...
