Ireland is among six EU countries which have agreed to take in migrants stranded on a rescue ship in the Mediterranean.

Children are dying from preventable diseases and women are giving birth in unsafe conditions in a Syrian camp, Médecins Sans Frontières have said.

Pregnant women who experience complications in childbirth and sick children are unable to reach medical care in Yemen in a safe and timely manner according to a report by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).

While Donald Trump declared state of emergency on the US border with Mexico in order to gain funds for building a border wall to prevent migration into the States, a lesser known fact is the health problems Central Americans face when they are deported back.

MSF’s field communications manager in Jerusalem Jacob Burns reflects on what it means when a devastating toll of injuries in Gaza comes to be considered a ‘good’ day

Some 2,800 people have been displaced by fighting between rival militias over Tripoli, the UN humanitarian co-ordinator in Libya said.

More than a million people are struggling to rebuild their lives in flood-affected parts of Mozambique, many of whom are in urgent need of assistance for the basics to survive.

Across South Sudan, children have been used as soldiers, leading to 3,100 becoming demobilised.

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Aoife Ní Mhurchu discusses her adventures with MSF on MV Aquarius, which recently

While the West does arms deals, doctors in Jordan try to help the people of Yemen suffering from the constant bombardment, writes Norma Costello.

Trade union Unite has revealed that it offered the building at the centre of a social housing row to a homelessness charity three years ago in order to provide accommodation for homeless people.

This five-day-old newborn is one of the over 6,500 refugees who have been rescued off the Libyan coast in the last two days.

Medical aid agency MSF (Médecins Sans Frontières, or Doctors Without Borders) said thousands of Iraqi civilians fleeing the besieged city of Fallujah have been without access to medicine for months and are fleeing to areas without adequate water and sanitation, raising the likelihood of epidemics such as cholera.

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The Naval Service is edging close to rescuing 9,000 migrants after the latest mission by the crew of LÉ Róisín resulted in a further 395 people being picked up in the Mediterranean Sea, including 15 children.

A wave of air strikes and shelling have killed more than 60 people in less than 24 hours in the Syrian city of Aleppo, monitors and activists said.

Doctors Without Borders said it took the wrenching decision not to formally inform Syria’s government or its Russian allies about the location of some medical facilities such as the one hit by a deadly airstrike this week.

Close to 50 civilians have been killed and many more wounded in missile attacks on at least five medical facilities and two schools in northern Syria, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said.

A makeshift clinic supported by Doctors Without Borders has been destroyed by an air strike in northern Syria, a spokeswoman for an international aid agency has said.

Doctors Without Borders has called for an independent and unprecedented fact-finding mission to investigate a US air strike on a hospital run by the medical aid group in Afghanistan that killed at least 22 people.

Medical aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres denied that Taliban fighters were firing from its hospital at Afghan and NATO forces before a suspected US air strike killed at least 19 people in a battle to oust the Islamist insurgents from an Afghan city.

Doctors Without Borders says the world will run out of one of the most effective treatments for snakebites next year, risking the lives of tens of thousands of people, mostly in developing countries.

Dozens of people from the Middle East have reached the Greek island of Kos from nearby Turkey, joining thousands already camped in wretched conditions.

Hundreds of migrants are feared drowned after a fishing boat said to be carrying as many as 700 people capsized in the Mediterranean yesterday.

If wind or rain had whipped up before the LÉ Niamh reached a wooden barge crammed with more than 500 migrants, the death toll onboard would probably have been far higher.

Living in Yemen is like being trapped in a complex, faulty, Rubik’s Cube. Every day you face puzzles that may have no right answers. A move in any direction can lead to blindly exploding shells, airstrikes or stray bullets.

Karen Buckley’s family  face an agonising wait before they can bring her body home for burial; Médecins Sans Frontières is launching a search-and-rescue operation for Italian migrants; and Leinster scuppered by Toulon. These are some of the latest and most read news stories on irishexaminer.com this morning.

At least 3,500 refugees drowned close to European shores in 2014, but the EU shows no willingness to change the very policies that have led to this crisis, writes Aurélie Ponthieu.

Médecins Sans Frontières says its warnings that the ebola epidemic was spiralling out of control and that it could not respond were dismissed as alarmist, writes Misha Hussain

It is exactly a year since the deadliest outbreak of ebola was confirmed and health experts and charities have warned the danger is far from over.

A computer tablet which can withstand being dropped into chlorine and sterilised has been designed by technology experts to aid medical staff working in the parts of Africa hardest hit by the ebola outbreak.

I SPENT a month in Sierra Leone, at the front line of the largest Ebola outbreak in history.

I’ve lived in a tent in South Sudan for a year and spent hours at checkpoints in Iraq, but nothing prepared me for what ebola is doing in western Africa, writes Save the Children worker Sarah Murphy

The British nurse who survived Ebola has hinted he could return to the country where he contracted the virus to help fight the outbreak.

An Irish doctor heading for the epicentre of the Ebola outbreak has warned that the number of patients being seen at treatment centres does not reflect the true scale of the epidemic.

New HIV infections and deaths from Aids are decreasing, the United Nations said, making it possible to control the epidemic by 2030 and eventually end it "in every region, in every country".

Fear, panic and denial are the lethal hallmarks of the response to the worst Ebola outbreak in decades. Without global action,its deadly march could even reach Europe, writes Michael Clifford.