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Libyan-UK partnership on Infectious Diseases Control

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.

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Libyan-UK partnership on Infectious Diseases Control

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  1. 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

  2. NCIDC • Established in 2002. • Providing technical support. • Control of46 infectious and endemic diseases. • There are 27 Branches all over the country.

  3. 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.

  4. Relations • Memorandums of understanding signed with the governmental and nongovernmental organization. dealing with communicable disease. • Large number of institutes and organizations world wide.

  5. 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 .

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

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

  10. 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.

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. MOU , Libya / UK • Signed on May 19, 2008 . • Health Protection Agency.

  17. Tmc/MRSA • Advising team. • Wilton Park • Real time surveillance.

  18. Scope visit • Developing a structured national health care associated infection program. • Laboratories • Infection control

  19. Post Visit • Report outlining the current status of Libyan laboratories. • Identify individual projects with full cost.

  20. 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

  21. Thank you

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