Global HIV response facing worst setback in decades, UNAIDS warns
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...
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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
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
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
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...
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
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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
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
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
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...
Giving birth in the shadow of Sudan’s war (By Esther Bayliss and Sufian Abdul-Mouty, UN News)
MA Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) As Sudan’s destructive war – now in its third year – grinds on, the challenges to health systems are immense and [...] Full text...
‘Let's finish the job’ and end polio: WHO
MA Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Thirty-five years ago, polio, a highly infectious viral disease, paralysed around 350,000 children per year. Following a UN-led international push, that [...] Full text...
National poliovirus sequencing capacity enhances Cameroon’s outbreak response - WHO
MA Yaounde, Cameroon (PANA) - For the first time ever, a circulating variant poliovirus type 3 (cVDPV3) was fully sequenced in Cameroon, marking a major milestone [...] Full text...
Eswatini strengthens health workforce planning
MA Mbabane, Eswatini (PANA) – The Eswatini Ministry of Health, in collaboration with the World Health Organisation (WHO), is developing evidence-based staffing norms for public health [...] Full text...
UN aid coordination office warns of health crisis in eastern DRC
MA Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - The UN aid coordination office (OCHA) on Monday reported that health systems across North and South Kivu in the restive Democratic [...] Full text...
Last Ebola patient in Democratic Republic of the Congo discharged
WA Bulape, DRC (PANA) - The last Ebola patient in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was discharged Sunday, marking an important milestone in the efforts [...] Full text...
‘No level of lead is safe’: WHO
MA Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Lead is found in many everyday products such as paint and cosmetics, but that doesn’t make it safe.The World Health Organisation [...] Full text...
12th Edition of Merck Foundation Africa Asia Luminary opens in Gambia
MSS Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The 12th Edition of the Merck Foundation Africa Asia Luminary, which brings together First Ladies from six African countries, policymakers, and [...] Full text...
Antibiotic resistance surges globally, WHO warns
MA Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Common infections are becoming harder – and sometimes impossible – to treat, the UN World Health Organisation (WHO) warned on Monday, [...] Full text...
AU commemorates 2025 Healthy Lifestyle Day
MA Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union Commission (AUC), through the Medical and Health Services Directorate, last week commemorated the 2025 Africa Healthy Lifestyle [...] Full text...
'Mental health support is not optional, it is essential,' says Guterres
MA New York, US (PANA) - As conflicts multiply, population displacement intensifies and the climate crisis strikes with increasing force, the UN chief stressed Friday the [...] Full text...
Europe’s health system under strain as doctors and nurses face mental health crisis
WA Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - One in 10 doctors and nurses in Europe experience suicidal thoughts, a new survey carried out by the World Health Organisation [...] Full text...
Alcohol consumption could increase the risk of developing seven types of cancer
MA Lyon, France (PANA) - Increased alcohol consumption, even moderate, is associated with a higher risk of seven types of cancer, the International Agency for Research [...] Full text...
WHO says rebuilding Gaza’s shattered health system critical to lasting peace
MA Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - As indirect talks in Egypt seeking to end Gaza’s two-year war continue, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) says rebuilding the [...] Full text...
Nigeria launches largest integrated vaccination campaign in its history
MA Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria on Monday launched the largest integrated vaccination campaign in its history.This is part of its wider efforts to support its [...] Full text...
WHO: Despite smoking decline, tobacco still hooks one in five adults worldwide
MA Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Although there are fewer smokers now than 15 years ago, one in five adults worldwide is still hooked on tobacco.That’s according [...] Full text...
Gaza health system overwhelmed as WHO reports 42,000 people have life-changing injuries
MA Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - Nearly 42,000 people in Gaza are living with life-changing injuries from the ongoing conflict – including more than 10,000 children [...] Full text...
LIbya records cases of rickettsiosis
BBA Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan National Centre for Disease Control (CNC) has announced that it has recorded cases of rickettsiosis in the Central region, [...] Full text...
‘Trust crisis’ impacts vaccine rollouts - WHO
MA Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Immunisation experts at the UN World Health Organisation (WHO) have warned that global protection against preventable diseases is under threat, in [...] Full text...
DRC sees 'significant decline' in Ebola virus transmission in Kasai
MA Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - The Ebola outbreak in Kasai province, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is seeing signs of a notable decline in transmission, the [...] Full text...
Libyan Ministry of Health, WB discuss strengthening of cooperation on health projects
BBA Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Deputy Secretary-General of the Libyan Ministry of Health of the Government of National Unity (GNU) who is also the acting [...] Full text...
Breathless in Gaza: Health crisis deepens as families burn plastic for fuel
MA Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - Doctors in Gaza are warning of a surge in respiratory illnesses as families – cut off from basic supplies – [...] Full text...
Libya, WHO discuss strengthening cooperation and evaluation of national action plan
BBA Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Assistant Secretary-General of the Libyan Ministry of Health of the Government of National Unity and acting minister, Mohamed al-Ghouj, on [...] Full text...
World leaders support political declaration on NCDs, mental health
MA New York, US (PANA) - World leaders have thrown their weight behind the first-ever United Nations global political declaration tackling noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and mental health [...] Full text...
Four more hospitals shut in Gaza amid ongoing Israeli offensive
MA Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The escalating Israeli military offensive in Gaza City continues to overwhelm medical professionals there, with four more hospitals forced to shut [...] Full text...
Libya attends high-level UN meeting on prevention of non-communicable diseases
BBA Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Ministry of Health of Libya's Tripoli-based Government of National Unity (GNU) has participated in the UN General Assembly High-Level Meeting [...] Full text...
UNICEF delivers vaccines, life-saving support as Ebola outbreak hits DRC's Kasai region
MA Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - Nearly 45,000 doses of the Ebola vaccine are on their way to Kasai province as the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) intensifies [...] Full text...