When Health Care Is Decimated By War: COVID-19 in the Middle East and North Africa

Related Content Human Rights Dimensions of COVID-19 Response What are your main concerns about the coronavirus moving through the MENA region? The first is countries in conflict, Yemen, Syria, and Libya, and the densely crowded Gaza Strip, under Israeli occupation. Another vulnerable population is refugees and migrants, as well as people in prison or detention. Also, we know older people are particularly vulnerable to this virus and that they, along with people with disabilities, have a harder time accessing not only health care but information about the virus. Then there’s the poor. People who…

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