Dr Tasneem Yehya: Bringing lifelong care to my patients with MAPâs support
In countries like the UK, when someone has a health problem, they will usually first visit their GP who can, if necessary, refer them on to specialists for tests or treatment. The primary healthcare...
View ArticleJoint letter to the Foreign Secretary: Equitable access to vaccines in Palestine
Photo credit: Shutterstock Medical Aid for Palestinians has joined Oxfam, Save the Children, the Norwegian Refugee Council and ActionAid Palestine to call on the Secretary of State for Foreign,...
View ArticleMedic shot in Gaza returns to UN Human Rights Council to call for accountability
This week, emergency physician Dr Tarek Loubani, who was shot by Israeli forces in Gaza in 2018, returned to the UN Human Rights Council to highlight how international inaction to ensure...
View ArticleEnsuring sight saving surgeries can continue in Palestine amid the pandemic
Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) is supporting St John’s Eye Hospital, the largest provider of eye care in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), to deliver sight saving surgeries amid the...
View ArticlePalestinian women soon to receive care at new specialist breast unit
On International Women’s Day, Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) is delighted to update supporters on the new specialist breast unit which will be opening soon at the Rafidia Hospital in Nablus. The...
View Article17,000 people demand UK action to ensure equitable vaccines access for...
Photo credit: Shutterstock On 11 March, Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) delivered a petition from 17,059 of our supporters to UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, calling on the UK to urgently press...
View ArticleMAP condemns demolition of home of Palestinian man with a disability
Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) strongly condemns the demolition by Israeli authorities to Hatem Abu Riyala’s home in Issawiya in East Jerusalem on 1 March. This is the fourth demolition his family...
View ArticleWest Bank health system under strain amid COVID-19 surge
A worrying surge in COVID-19 cases is once again placing immense pressures on Palestinian health services in the West Bank. The World Health Organization estimates that there are currently 20,203...
View ArticleMAP urges UK to support Palestiniansâ right to health at UN Human Rights...
Today Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) has written to Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, Minister for Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Affairs with responsibility for the UN, urging the UK to seize the...
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View ArticleMarking one year of MAPâs COVID-19 emergency response in Palestine and Lebanon
This month marks one year since the first cases of COVID-19 were identified in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) and Lebanon. Since this unprecedented global crisis began, Medical Aid for...
View ArticleBurns Care Services in Gaza, a forgotten national public health priority
In Gaza, the precarious humanitarian and economic situation means that burns injuries remain an ever-present danger. High reliance on gas stoves and heaters and candles for light during regular...
View ArticleChief Executive Aimee Shalan to step down after four years with MAP
Aimee Shalan, Chief Executive of Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP), will step down in the summer after four years in the role due to the need for intensive and prolonged rehabilitation following back...
View ArticleRemembering the Great March of Return, Three Years On
Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) joins with other members of the Association of International Development Agencies (AIDA) in marking the three year anniversary of the beginning of the "Great March...
View ArticleMAP brings oxygen generators to Gaza amid COVID surge
This week Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) has delivered two oxygen generators to hospitals in Gaza amid a surge of COVID-19 cases that is once again straining the capacity of hospitals to respond....
View ArticleNot just a painful memory: Continuing to treat the Great March of Returnâs...
Three years ago, on 30 March 2018, a series of widespread civil society-initiated protests began in Gaza. Dubbed the “Great March of Return”, these weekly demonstrations demanded the lifting of the...
View ArticleWatch: MAP's mobile clinic supporting marginalised West Bank communities
Our latest film highlights how the Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP)-supported mobile clinic is providing essential primary health care services to marginalised communities in the southern West Bank....
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