Libyan-UK partnership on Infectious Diseases Control

Professor Abdulhafid A. Abudher

MBBch,DGO,FRCOG,MD,FABOG Director of National Centre for Infectious

disease prevention and Control

NCIDC

Established in 2002. Providing technical support. Control of46 infectious and

endemic diseases. There are 27 Branches all over

the country.

www.nidcc.org.ly

The centre is leading too many programs

scientific committees, and each committee is from the very eminent Libyan scientist in that field from all over country.

Education, public and community.

Relations

Memorandums of understanding signed with the governmental and nongovernmental organization. dealing with communicable disease.

Large number of institutes and organizations world wide.

WWW.

Research ,Survey, Publications. Libyan Medical Index

www.lmi.com.ly Biannual scientific conference

www.nidcc-idsc.org.ly . A dynamic website for all types of

influenza including the latest on swine flu is open for communication with the public and medicals www.avianflu.org.ly .

 

LJID

Libyan Journal of Infectious Disease www.nidnn-jid.org.ly , which is an official periodical of the centre and in Index Medics W.H.O , E.M.R.O, and in Libyan Medical Index.

Libyan European partnership for infectious diseases control

programme(LEPIDC)

lessons learnt from the previous projects

need to expand the activities towards Infectious diseases (ID) to the whole country

(LEPIDC) is more ambitious and challenging than the previous one.

LEPIDCAims

enlarging the support to the country at various levels:

Support to regional hospitals ,(units in five regional hospitals will be targeted).

Institutional support to the NCIDC.

LEPIDC Support Levles

Development of curricula which include application of knowledge, practical skills and professionalism with particular emphasis on confronting stigmatisation of PLHIV.

 

projects objectives

The overall objective of the project is to improve health status of the population of Libya in the area of HIV/AIDS and other ID.

Strengthen the capacity of the Government of Libya to develop appropriate approaches in the management of HIV/AIDS and other ID through the provision of TA and training.

 

National HIV/AIDS Strategy in Libya

Support to the Development and Implementation of a National HIV/AIDS Strategy in Libya

Implementing agency: Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

Specific objective

Provision of a technical assistance to the Government of Libya to finalize the development of a 2009-2013 National HIV/AIDS Strategy

Provision of an appropriate treatment, support and care to children and adults with HIV and AIDS

Main Interventions

formulate a National HIV Strategy that addresses Libya’s priority issues for HIV prevention and care

obtain critical biological, social and behavioural estimates to guide and assess the strategy

analyze these data and draw evidence based conclusions from them

Main Interventions,,,,

develop policies and procedures to effectively promote best practice, evidence-based harm minimisation activities amongst key high risk groups (IDU, FSW, MSM)

coordinate the dissemination of key HIV strategy messages and policies

Key Tasks

1.Support for National Strategy formulation and dissemination

2.Capacity building of national counterparts and national organisations

3.Data collection and analysis support

4. Data for decision making

MOU , Libya / UK

Signed on May 19, 2008 . Health Protection Agency.

Tmc/MRSA

Advising team. Wilton Park Real time surveillance.

Scope visit

Developing a structured national health care associated infection program.

Laboratories Infection control

Post Visit

Report outlining the current status of Libyan laboratories.

Identify individual projects with full cost.

Trilateral ProgramLibya,UK,USA

promote cooperation in life science research for peaceful purposes.

Assistance on infectious disease control

workshop on human infectious disease surveillance,

provision of hands-on training for Libyan veterinary scientists .

establishing contact points in relevant UK human, animal and plant health institutions

Thank you