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Tip of the iceberg: deeper implications of COVID-19 for Palestinian communities

The rate of COVID-19 infections is the tip of the iceberg in terms of the pandemic’s humanitarian impact. Seven months since the first case in Palestine, the economic, social and health effects of the pandemic are severely affecting other aspects of life.

مؤسسات بريطانية تقدم أجهزة تنفس اصطناعي حديثة لتلبية احتياجات الفلسطينيين في مواجهة فايروس الكورونا

رام الله، 10 أيلول 2020 – قامت جمعية التربية الطبية الدولية 2000 (IMET2000) وجمعية العون الطبي للفلسطينيين (MAP)، وبدعم من القنصلية البريطانية العامة، اليوم بتسليم 15 جهاز تنفس اصطناعي من نوع حديث إلى وزارة الصحة الفلسطينية في رام الله.

British organisations deliver respirators to Palestine to support COVID-19 response

The International Medical Education Trust 2000 and MAP, supported by the British Consulate General, have delivered 15 Continuous Positive Airway Pressure respirators to the Ministry of Health in Ramallah.

How MAP’s partner the Dunya Centre is safely providing essential cancer services amid the pandemic

Read how our partner, the Dunya Women's Cancer Centre, is working hard to ensure women can access its essential diagnostic and support services amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

MAP briefs the UN on barriers to disability rights in the occupied Palestinian territory

Read about MAP's latest briefing on barriers to disability rights in the occupied Palestinian territory.

MAP declares healthcare emergency across Gaza, West Bank and Lebanon

Gaza’s first community COVID-19 cases are only the latest crisis in a pan-regional humanitarian emergency affecting Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territory and Lebanon

Burns prevention awareness-raising in Palestine

Hear from Hana’a and Ali, who oversee MAP’s burns prevention project, to hear how their work is helping to reduce the prevalence of burns injuries in Palestine and improve the care that those with burns injuries receive.

UK charities ask: Is the UK government abandoning the Palestinian people?

MAP has joined 13 UK humanitarian, development, human rights and faith organisations calling on the UK government to declare what meaningful steps it will take to oppose further illegal Israeli annexation of Palestinian land.

Annexation and the deterioration of the right to health of Palestinians

MAP decries the Israeli government’s intended annexation for the intensified widespread and severe violations of Palestinians’ right to health and well-being which it will cause.

UK MPs witness worsening humanitarian and human rights crisis in the West Bank with MAP and Caabu

Read about the latest delegation of UK parliamentarians to visit the West Bank with MAP and Caabu.

MAP attends International Conference on the future of Family Medicine in Palestine

In another important step forward for our Family Medicine Programme in the West Bank, MAP sponsored a second International Conference on Family Medicine in Bethlehem in November.

Breast Cancer Awareness Month: “I’m proud to be a survivor at the Dunya Centre”

MAP recently met with women from the Dunya Women Cancer Centre, to hear about the clinic's psychosocial support and the difference it is making to Palestinian women’s lives.

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