World leaders adopt a historic global declaration on noncommunicable diseases and mental health

16 december 2025 - 13:41:25 WA

New York, US (PANA)  – Leaders from across the world at the Eightieth United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) have adopted the political declaration to combat [...] Full text...

New influenza variant is surging, but vaccination still our best bet: WHO

16 december 2025 - 13:02:44 MA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Amid an early start to the Northern Hemisphere influenza season a new variant of the virus is rapidly gaining ground - [...] Full text...

Southern Africa tackles climate-driven disease threats through pandemic fund grant

16 december 2025 - 09:47:36 MA

Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Eight Southern African countries are joining forces to prevent, detect and respond to disease outbreaks before they spread to communities.They are Botswana, [...] Full text...

US, Mozambique sign MoU on health cooperation

16 december 2025 - 08:33:15 MA

 Washington, DC, US (PANA) - Officials of the US ans Mozambique on Monday signed a five-year bilateral health cooperation Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between their [...] Full text...

US signs health MoU with Eswatini

13 december 2025 - 08:07:46 MA

Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The United States and the Government of the Kingdom of Eswatini on Friday signed a five-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) [...] Full text...

WHO expert group reaffirms no link between vaccines and autism

12 december 2025 - 07:43:35 MA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A World Health Organisation (WHO) expert committee has again confirmed that there is no causal link between vaccines and autism spectrum disorders [...] Full text...

US signs MOUs with Uganda and Lesotho on health

11 december 2025 - 07:51:53 MA

Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The United States on Wednesday signed five-year bilateral health cooperation Memorandums of Understanding (MOU) with the governments of Uganda and [...] Full text...

Traditional medicine is now a global reality: WHO

11 december 2025 - 07:19:08 MA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The vast majority of World Health Organisation (WHO) member States say 40 to 90 per cent of their populations now use [...] Full text...

US and Liberia sign bilateral health cooperation MoU

10 december 2025 - 07:13:57 MA

Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The United States and Liberia on Tuesday signed a five-year bilateral health cooperation Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) under the America [...] Full text...

DRC facing most devastating cholera epidemic in 25 years

09 december 2025 - 07:45:23 MA

Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - The cholera epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) had devastating effects in 2025, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) has [...] Full text...

Most countries make progress towards universal health coverage, but major challenges remain, WHO–World Bank report finds

05 december 2025 - 19:32:18 WA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA)  – ​​​​​​​Since 2000, most countries—across all income levels and regions—have made concurrent progress in expanding health service coverage and reducing the financial [...] Full text...

Nigerian sovereign wealth fund invests in digital medical diagnostics equipment

05 december 2025 - 11:49:04 AO

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's sovereign wealth fund has moved to improve availability of medical diagnostic tools across medical facilities owned by its subsidiaries over [...] Full text...

UN support helps Gaza mothers give birth amid collapsing health system

05 december 2025 - 07:42:19 MA

Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - Every week in Gaza, at least 15 women give birth outside any health facility, often without a trained midwife, pain [...] Full text...

African football legends join forces to give a red card to polio

05 december 2025 - 07:27:19 MA

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Six African football legends are urging the continent to unite and step up efforts to vaccinate every child against the life-threatening [...] Full text...

New tools saved a million lives from malaria last year but progress under threat as drug resistance rises

04 december 2025 - 13:37:19 WA

Geneva, Switzerland ( PANA) - Wider use of new tools against malaria, including dual-ingredient nets and WHO-recommended vaccines helped to prevent an estimated 170 million [...] Full text...

Drug resistance, underfunding threaten progress towards eliminating malaria

04 december 2025 - 11:20:54 MA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) World Malaria Report, published on Thursday, shows that resistance to antimalarial drugs now poses one of [...] Full text...

EC agrees its position on new rules to tackle shortages of critical medicines

02 december 2025 - 12:01:06 AR

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – The European Council has agreed its position on a new regulation that seeks to strengthen the EU’s resilience in the face [...] Full text...

HIV and AIDS: Despite funding setbacks, prevention sees progress

02 december 2025 - 07:14:37 MA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Pooja Mishra’s health kept worsening until she began treatment for HIV at age 19, two years after her diagnosis. From wondering [...] Full text...

Democratic Republic of the Congo declares end of 16th Ebola outbreak

01 december 2025 - 15:27:37 WA

Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - The Democratic Republic of the Congo Monday declared the end of the Ebola virus disease outbreak in Kasai Province, after no [...] Full text...

WHO issues global guideline on the use of GLP-1 medicines in treating obesity

01 december 2025 - 14:55:49 WA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - To address the growing global health challenge of obesity, which affects more than 1 billion people, the World Health Organisation (WHO) [...] Full text...

South Africa:'s Deputy President commemorates World AIDS Day

01 december 2025 - 07:36:57 CU

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Deputy President Paul Mashatile, in his capacity as the Chairperson of the South African National AIDS Council (SANAC), is [...] Full text...

Children hit by HIV funding gaps

29 november 2025 - 06:35:28 MA

New York, US (PANA) - Children and adolescents living with HIV continue to be left behind in access to early diagnosis, life-saving treatment and care, [...] Full text...

Global measles cases surge as 30 million children miss vaccines, UN health agency warns

28 november 2025 - 20:03:40 WA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Measles deaths have dropped by 88 percent since 2000 – yet an estimated 95,000 people, mostly children, still died from the [...] Full text...

WHO issues first global guideline on infertility

28 november 2025 - 13:22:28 WA

Geneva, 28 November -- The World Health Organisation (WHO) Thursday called on countries to make fertility care safer, fairer and more affordable for all in [...] Full text...

Countries, experts agree on 10-year Africa Health Workforce Agenda

27 november 2025 - 10:39:29 MA

Pretoria, South Africa (PANA) - African countries have reached consensus on the priority actions, commitments and milestones that will shape the Africa Health Workforce Agenda [...] Full text...

DRC launches drive to vaccinate 62 million children and adolescents against measles and rubella

27 november 2025 - 10:29:46 MA

Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - The Democratic Republic of the Congo on Thursday launched a nationwide vaccination campaign aiming to protect around 62 million children aged [...] Full text...

WHO Africa endorses roadmap for safeguarding communities in health emergency operations

27 november 2025 - 10:22:16 MA

Pretoria, South Africa (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) in the African region, Member States and partners have agreed on a roadmap to protect [...] Full text...

Global HIV response facing worst setback in decades, UNAIDS warns

25 november 2025 - 17:46:03 MA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The global response to HIV is facing its most serious setback in decades, UNAIDS warned on Tuesday, as abrupt funding cuts [...] Full text...

Malaria vaccine price cut set to protect 7 million more children by 2030

24 november 2025 - 05:39:17 MA

New York, US (PANA) - Vaccine alliance Gavi and children’s agency UNICEF have struck a new pricing deal that will sharply cut the cost of [...] Full text...

WHO Africa Regional Office launches geodatabase to empower data-driven health decisions

20 november 2025 - 13:42:21 MA

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) — To mark Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Day on 19 November, the Africa Regional Office of the World Health Organisation (WHO) launched the [...] Full text...

WHO sounds alarm over global rise in drug-resistant gonorrhea cases

20 november 2025 - 09:11:58 MA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Gonorrhea, a sexually transmitted infection, is becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics, the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned on Wednesday.According to new [...] Full text...

UN calls for legal safeguards for AI in healthcare

19 november 2025 - 16:35:22 MA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Use of artificial intelligence (AI) is accelerating in healthcare – but basic legal safety nets that protect patients and health workers [...] Full text...

South Africa represented at World Toilet Summit

19 november 2025 - 07:30:38 CU

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa's Deputy Minister of Water and Sanitation, David Mahlobo is leading a government delegation to the World Toilet [...] Full text...

Cabo Verde, Mauritius and Seychelles eliminate measles and rubella

18 november 2025 - 07:34:37 MA

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - In a significant public health achievement, Cabo Verde, Mauritius and Seychelles have eliminated measles and rubella, becoming the first sub-Saharan countries [...] Full text...

Ethiopia: UN supports response to potentially deadly virus outbreak

13 november 2025 - 20:08:26 WA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA)  - The World Health Organisation (WHO) is supporting Ethiopia as the country faces a suspected viral haemorraghic fever outbreak in the south, [...] Full text...

Ethiopia reports suspected viral haemorrhagic fever outbreak

13 november 2025 - 19:49:42 WA

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA)  -  Health authorities in Ethiopia are carrying out further investigations and ramping up response after suspected cases of viral haemorrhagic fever [...] Full text...

Ethiopia: UN supports response to potentially deadly virus outbreak

13 november 2025 - 17:17:03 MA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) is supporting Ethiopia as the country faces a suspected viral haemorraghic fever outbreak in the south, [...] Full text...

TB cases fall for first time since pandemic

13 november 2025 - 08:28:50 MA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Tuberculosis, or TB, remains one of the world’s deadliest infectious killers, claiming over 1.2 million lives and affecting an estimated 10.7 [...] Full text...

Egypt becomes seventh country in eastern Mediterranean region to eliminate trachoma as a public health problem

12 november 2025 - 14:08:00 WA

Cairo, Egypt, (PANA) – The World Health Organisation (WHO )Wednesday announced that Egypt has successfully eliminated trachoma as a public health problem, marking a historic [...] Full text...

One in five children has not received essential vaccinations in Gaza

09 november 2025 - 08:20:08 MA

Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - As United Nations agencies prepare to launch a massive vaccination campaign for 44,000 children in the Gaza Strip, a new [...] Full text...

Rift Valley fever- Mauritania and Senegal: Situation at a glance

05 november 2025 - 19:09:42 WA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Between 20 September and 30 October 2025, a total of 404 confirmed human cases of Rift Valley fever (RVF), including 42 [...] Full text...

Catch-up immunization campaign ‘a lifeline’ for Gaza’s children

05 november 2025 - 17:00:05 WA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A campaign for routine immunization, nutrition, and growth monitoring will be launched in the Gaza Strip this week with the goal [...] Full text...

Only 5 per cent of European 7 to 9-year-olds eat enough fruit and vegetables

05 november 2025 - 07:44:30 MA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Only five per cent of children aged seven to nine across Europe eat enough fruit and vegetables, according to the World [...] Full text...

Syria’s future under threat from acute funding shortages

04 november 2025 - 19:01:29 WA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Hopes for a peaceful future in post-war Syria are at risk as funding for basic services dries up, the World Health [...] Full text...

Obstetric violence deadly for Sierra Leone women, newborns - HRW

04 november 2025 - 09:24:54 MA

Freetown, Sierra Leone (PANA) – Women giving birth in public healthcare facilities in the West African state of Sierra Leone face demeaning, dangerous, and potentially deadly [...] Full text...

WHO calls for sustainable health financing

04 november 2025 - 07:55:48 MA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Monday issued new recommendations aimed at helping countries mitigate the immediate and lasting effects of [...] Full text...

Surviving the next pandemic could depend on where you live

04 november 2025 - 07:44:14 MA

New York, US (PANA) - A new global report warns that inequality is increasing the world’s vulnerability to pandemics, making them more deadly, more costly [...] Full text...

Around 224 million women still don’t access family planning

04 november 2025 - 07:34:45 MA

New York, US (PANA) - Since 1990, the number of people using modern contraception methods has doubled globally but despite this, nearly 224 million women [...] Full text...

Africa CDC mobilises emergency public-health response after Sudan hospital attack

01 november 2025 - 17:35:18 MO

Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) is dispatching critical medical commodities and supplies following the 28 October [...] Full text...

IOM steps up Ebola and mpox preparedness across Africa

28 october 2025 - 05:20:08 MA

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) is scaling up its health response across Africa, responding swiftly to the Ebola outbreak in the [...] Full text...