Migrants who just arrived in Paris often lack access to vital information, according to a new survey. The causes: precarious living conditions, the language barrier and illiteracy.
The Hôtel-Dieu hospital in Paris offers checks for sexually transmitted infections (STI) such as chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, hepatitis B and C and HIV. The service is free and open to all, including undocumented migrants without healthcare coverage in France.
Some of the 261 migrants who reached the Puglia port city of Bari on Sunday, December 11, were in poor health and needed to be hospitalized. A nurse on board the rescue vessel Humanity 1 said a few passengers rescued off Libya's coast were in "terrible medical conditions".
One of the few survivors of a migrant shipwreck that took place off the Syrian coastline in September has been released and repatriated to Lebanon after he was detained by Syrian authorities.
The number of diphtheria cases in England has risen this year, British health officials have warned, citing dozens of cases found among asylum seekers arriving into the country. The infectious disease primarily affects the upper respiratory tract.
The UNHCR has issued a statement welcoming steps in addressing mental health problems among refugees and displaced people. It stressed that a lot more still has to be done to assist people fleeing war and persecution.
A reported 52% of migrants in Morocco did not have access to the vaccine against COVID-19. Out of that percentage, 70% refused to get vaccinated while the remaining 30% wanted a vaccine but couldn't obtain it, a survey carried out by the International Organization for Migration in Morocco shows.
Refugees and other migrants receive a lower standard of health care in comparison to local residents, a new WHO report has found. Migrants face additional hurdles including language, economic and legal barriers, as well as unequal access to information and services.
This is the story of Nazifa Noor Ahmad, an Afghan woman who arrived in Italy as a child in 2008 to be treated for a severe form of Hodgkin lymphoma. The young woman died at age 20 on Wednesday (June 15), only a few days after a lung transplant she had undergone.
An Afghan migrant who died from a heart attack in the Calabrian sea port of Roccella Ionica on Wednesday was suffering from diabetes. Her health had been deemed not serious enough to require hospitalization.
Denmark is planning to open four advanced medical clinics which will focus solely on treating the growing number of Ukrainian refugees to ease pressure on the country's healthcare system. The plans present a stark contrast to the government's recent policies towards refugees from non-European states.
Libya has reported a rise in the number of tuberculosis (TB) cases, particularly among migrants and refugees.