Libya: Lack of immigration regulation complicates controlling tuberculosis

Najia Rashed is the Director of the Tuberculosis Control Department. She works at the National Center for Disease Control. Rashed stated that TB cases among irregular migrants rose by 59% in 2025. She made this statement to Al-Masar TV. Rashed noted that the percentage of infected migrants was 40% in 2023.

This figure increased to 54% in 2024. She explained that unregulated migration could lead to most infected individuals arriving from neighboring African countries. This makes controlling…