The Italian Foreign Ministry and the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS) are undertaking a humanitarian project to provide treatment in Genoa and Tunis for 10 seriously ill children.
There have never been so many people on the move worldwide, and they must be guaranteed healthcare, says the World Health Organization (WHO). This is why they just approved a five-year global action plan for migrant health.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has published a report "Including the Excluded" on the organization's work to provide medical care to migrants and refugees living at the occupied former Olympic village in Turin known as the ex-MOI. MSF said it allowed marginalized people to enjoy their "right to health."
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) used a "humanitarian mechanism" for the first time ever in Europe to vaccinate refugee children on the Greek islands. The procedure provides a vaccine against pneumonia at a reduced price, in this case nine euros per child, rather than the hundreds of dollars it can normally cost.
Two Syrian-Palestinian brothers will be urgently transferred to Italy from Lebanon through a humanitarian corridor. The younger of the two will undergo a marrow transplant and his brother will be the donor.
A new project aims to bring medical support to the most vulnerable Libyan children. It's sponsored by Terre des Hommes and Mediterranean Hope and financed by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation.
There is a shortage of medical staff at several Greek migrant camps. The situation has been worsened by the state's failure to appoint permanent professionals after the EU's PHILOS program – which had been supplying staff – expired.
Stranded and hunger stricken residents of al-Rakban refugee camp near Jordan's border with Syria on Monday blamed the UN, Jordan and Syrian authorities for deteriorating humanitarian conditions in the desert camp, according to activists and camp residents. In an open letter, camp residents vilified UN secretary general Antonio Guterres, prime minister Omar al-Razaz and UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore after several deaths blamed on lack of medical attention and clean drinking water.
The UNHCR's 2018 Nansen Refugee Award was presented to Dr. Evan Atar Adaha for his committed service at a hospital in war-torn South Sudan. He spoke to DW about his work and the current situation in the fragile region.
On Tuesday evening, Germany returned around 50 rejected asylum seekers to Afghanistan, among them seven convicted criminal offenders. The group, however, also included two young men considered to be suicidal. Who is being deported and on what grounds?
This is the story of Dr. Sohani, a physician who has been working for nearly 10 years at the Pozzallo hotspot, treating migrants who arrive in Italy.
The difficulties, hopes and the fear of drowning imbue the stories of the migrants who landed on the Italian coast over the weekend. One of them, a woman, weighs only 35 kilos.