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Lebanon: Cervical cancer is largely curable – if identified early

With MAP’s support, local NGO Naba’a recently completed their annual Cervical Cancer Campaign in Ein el Helweh and Rashidyeh camps in Lebanon.

Empowering Palestinian youth in Lebanon: MAP’s health and life skills education programme

Mohammed recently described to MAP how he had benefitted from the MAP-supported ‘Adolescents Health and Life Skills Education’ programme, and used the experience to support his community and pursue his own career.

“It is not fair. Highly qualified Palestinian doctors are unable to work”

Imaan*, a gynaecologist, spoke to MAP about the barriers she has faced as a Palestinian refugee working in the Lebanese health sector.

“When they find out you’re Palestinian, they say no"

Mohammed, a Palestinian refugee nurse in a Palestinian Red Crescent Society hospital in Lebanon, spoke to MAP about the barriers he faces working in the health sector in Lebanon.

“When a Palestinian medical student graduates she is told she can’t legally work in medicine”

Alia*, a Palestinian refugee studying to become a doctor at a Lebanese university, spoke to MAP about the barriers to becoming a doctor in Lebanon.

MAP at the World Health Assembly: Health of Palestinian refugees

Last week MAP attended the World Health Assembly. MAP’s Advocacy and Campaigns Director was part of a panel - including from Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital (remotely), The Lancet, WHO and UNRWA - discussing “Health of Palestinians : 70 years after the Nakba”.

Collapse of healthcare for Palestinians in Lebanon inevitable without urgent action

Today Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) released a new report, warning that the health “system” for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon is scarcely fit for purpose.

Displacement and disability

Seventy years have now passed since the Nakba, or ‘Catastrophe’, when over 750,000 Palestinians were expelled from or fled their homes due to the actions of armed groups during the creation of the State of Israel. Around 100,000 of them found shelter in Lebanon.

Seventy years of ongoing Nakba

Today on the 70th anniversary of the Nakba ('catastrophe') MAP CEO Aimee Shalan writes from Gaza:

Nakba 70: Dr Ali Dakwar, MAP's Director of Programes in Lebanon

MAP’s Director of Programmes in Lebanon, Dr Ali Dakwar, describes his life as a Palestinian refugee in Lebanon, and why he works for the health and dignity of Palestinians with MAP:

“Life-changing” - 20 years of supporting parents of children with disabilities

Last month we celebrated the 20th anniversary of a support group for parents of children with disabilities enrolled in the Ghassan Kanafani Cultural Foundation’s Habilitation preschool, in Mar Elias camp, Lebanon.

US withdrawal of UNRWA funding endangers the lives of Palestinian refugees

The US Government announced on Tuesday that it has halved its planned funding to the UN agency responsible for humanitarian support to Palestinian refugees, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).

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