Syrian American Medical Society Foundation
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Advocacy in Action
Why We Advocate
SAMS has become a leader in advocacy and engagement with policymakers on both the national and international stages. SAMS effectively advocates increasing political will around taking action to end the Syrian crisis. Our advocacy ensures that instances of attacks on healthcare facilities, challenges of communities under siege, and the heroic work of Syrian medical workers reach policymakers, think tanks, the media, and the public. SAMS strives to echo and raise the voice of our colleagues on the ground who continue to risk their safety to save lives and alleviate suffering.
What We Advocate For
Protection of hospitals
Humanitarian
access
Syrian NGO leadership
Refugee support
Accountability
Cross-border access
Though I had thought that my personal list of heroes was complete, you forced me to make space for one more—or more accurately, a whole room full of heroes.
Ambassador Samantha Power
Measurable Impact
Through its advocacy, SAMS has:
Our campaigns
More than twelve years of conflict in Syria have pushed millions of Syrians into poverty and displacement, while also decreasing their access to primary and secondary health services, including cancer care.
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The massive explosion that rocked Beirut on August 4, 2020 left at least 200 people dead, injured over 6,000 and plunged 300,000 into homelessness virtually overnight.
The humanitarian situation in northwest Syria is going from bad to worse as attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure intensify.
On July 22, a marketplace and other residential areas in Ma’arat al-Nu’man in southern Idlib province were subjected to intense air strikes, killing 54 civilians, and injuring many more.
SAMS continues to  closely monitor the humanitarian and medical situation in Idlib, a province in northern Syria and home to nearly 3 million Syrians, including 1 million children and half of whom have been displaced from other areas in Syria.