RVF has launched the first public water desalination system in North Gaza, located at the Al-Shati Refugee Camp. This strategic installation is a first step in providing a reliable source of potable water free of charge to thousands of children … Read More
Safe drinking water is now being provided at the UNRWA Nuseirat Co-Ed Primary School in Gaza. RVF engineers have been able to repair the water purification unit, providing safe water for drinking and hygiene to thousands of displaced families … Read More
RVF is glad to announce that safe drinking water is now available in at a shelter serving over 50,000 people Khan Younis, Gaza. RVF has been able to repair and are maintaining a water desalination and water purification unit, producing … Read More
The Journal Vaccine has recently published the RVF-led study documenting the impressive reduction in rotavirus disease among young children in Palestine following the introduction of the rotavirus vaccine. Full text of the study available below: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X22015717
RVF has worked with the Palestinian Ministry of Health (PMOH) to deploy mobile medical clinics to provide health care to remote Bedouin populations in the West Bank. Though the PMOH has many free-standing clinics throughout the West Bank, many Bedouin families … Read More
RVF’s Medical Director, Wolfgang Rennert, MD, led an epidemiological study recently published by Oxford University Press in the Journal of Public Health on the impact of the rotavirus vaccine on the incidence and prevalence of life-threatening rotavirus disease in the … Read More
In this time of crisis, help us raise $25,000 to ensure that all babies in Gaza continue to receive the life-saving rotavirus vaccination this year.
“Unless babies are vaccinated, almost all of them get rotavirus, the doctor told me. Having the vaccine available for free in Gaza can save babies and parents from so much suffering..” – Majdoolin, first-time mother, Gaza City The rotavirus vaccine, … Read More
All babies in the West Bank and Gaza – over 130,000 babies every year- are now receiving the potentially life-saving rotavirus vaccine. Beginning in 2016, RVF partnered with the Palestinian Ministry of Health (MOH) to provide for the universal vaccination … Read More