Greece's national public health body and Doctors of the World are carrying out a 5-day vaccination program for children and teenagers at the Moria migrant camp on the island of Lesbos. Separately, new EU border agency Frontex regulations have come into force.
Temperatures in northwestern Bosnia have dropped below zero, leaving hundreds of migrants in a makeshift forest camp struggling for survival. A senior human rights envoy who visited the camp on Tuesday demanded its immediate closure.
A nine-month-old baby has died from severe dehydration in the Moria migrant camp on the Greek island of Lesbos. The baby's death was confirmed on Saturday as hundreds more migrants arrived on the Greek Aegean islands.
Getting by as a migrant without papers is certainly hard. If you become sick, it can be much worse - even life-threatening. So where can you turn in the UK if you need medical assistance?
Getting by as a migrant without papers is certainly hard and if you become sick, it can be much worse, even life threatening. So where can you turn in Italy if you need medical assistance?
Getting by as a migrant without papers is hard – but if you become sick, it can be much worse, even life-threatening. Where can you turn for medical care in Greece?
Pakistani migrant Naseer Ahmed lives at the Moria Refugee Camp on the Greek island of Lesbos in a makeshift tent. He has Hepatitis C but is not permitted to travel to Athens to receive treatment. We talked to him in early October.
Migrants who make the journey to Europe in boats face huge risks – not least to their physical and mental health. Those who become ill during their journey receive treatment on arrival, but they often struggle with lasting psychological trauma.
The 2019 Nansen Refugee Award for Asia, conferred each year by UN Refugee Agency UNHCR, goes to physiotherapist Alberto Cairo. The Italian manages seven orthopedic centers in Afghanistan on behalf of the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) denounced that after 10 years of conflict in northeastern Nigeria, living conditions and humanitarian needs remain very serious.
The UN refugee agency UNHCR reports that in 2018, some 10.5 million refugees received health care through public health programs, UNHCR, and other partners worldwide.
Vaccines save millions of lives, and yet misinformation and limited availability have left large numbers of children at risk. In Europe, migrants will continue to be more vulnerable than host populations unless they have access to immunization, experts say.