Cholera cases soar in Sudan as fighting intensifies
MA Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - As hostilities, insecurity and attacks on health facilities in Sudan continue to increase the risk of outbreaks across the country, [...] Full text...
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New report flags severity of US funding cuts to global AIDS response
MA New York, US (PANA) - Shuttered clinics and health workers laid off around the world reflect the widespread, negative toll the United States funding freeze [...] Full text...
WHO strengthens support for grassroots crowdsourcing campaign: a global movement of unity and solidarity
WA Geneva, Switzerland (PANA - What started as a grassroots initiative by a WHO staff member has grown into a global movement for health. Building on [...] Full text...
WHO marks 20 years of its lifesaving tobacco control treaty.
WA Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A UN treaty that addresses the global tobacco epidemic has saved millions of lives over the past two decades, the World [...] Full text...
Signing of a memorandum of understanding between Tunis and Beijing for the construction of a medical centre in Kairouan
BBA Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisia and China signed a memorandum of understanding on Monday for the construction of a medical centre in Kairouan (central Tunisia), [...] Full text...
DRC: UN concerned by worsening cholera epidemic in Goma
MA Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - While the security situation in the city of Goma remains worrying and a "precarious calm" is noted in Bukavu, capitals of [...] Full text...
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia confirms US $500 million commitment to global polio eradication effort
WA Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (PANA) – The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Monday reaffirmed its US $500 million pledge to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative [...] Full text...
Breast cancer cases projected to rise by nearly 40 per cent by 2050, WHO warns
WA Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Breast cancer cases are expected to increase by 38 per cent globally by 2050, with annual deaths from the disease projected [...] Full text...
World Health Day 2025 to spotlight women and babies’ survival, urging solidarity at a critical moment for global health
WA Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) has officially announced the theme of World Health Day 2025, Healthy beginnings, hopeful futures, which will [...] Full text...
Dozens dead, over 800 being treated for acute watery diarrhoea in Sudan's White Nile State
MA Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - Dozens of people have died, and over 800 are being treated for symptoms of acute watery diarrhoea, dehydration, vomiting, and [...] Full text...
New round of polio vaccinations begins in Gaza
WA Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - The latest round of a large-scale polio vaccination campaign in Gaza targeting nearly 600,000 young children got underway on Saturday, [...] Full text...
Sierra Leone scales up mpox outbreak response
MA Freetown, Sierra Leone (PANA) ‒ Sierra Leone is deploying a range of measures to control and end an outbreak of mpox in which 18 cases [...] Full text...
CAR takes steps to protect remote communities from polio
MA Bangui, CAR (PANA) – In the ongoing efforts to eradicate polio, the Central African Republic (CAR) has placed a special emphasis on reaching vulnerable and [...] Full text...
Uncertainty around US aids freeze puts millions of people at risk: MSF
MA Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) — The decision by the US government to temporarily freeze funding to the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) alongside all [...] Full text...
US funding cuts threaten global health response, WHO chief warns
MA Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) has expressed deep concern over the impact of US funding cuts on critical global health initiatives, [...] Full text...
Meds platform launch gives children with cancer a fighting chance
MA Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A new UN-partnered project to distribute essential childhood cancer medicines has begun in Uzbekistan and Mongolia, the first rollout for a [...] Full text...
Why does family planning save lives? (Feature by UNFPA)
MA New York, US (PANA) - Sakina Sani was forced into marriage at the age of 12, amid war and food shortages in northern Nigeria. She [...] Full text...
US aid funding cuts put HIV prevention at risk, warns UNAIDS
MA Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The US pause in foreign assistance funding has created “confusion” in the vital work of community HIV prevention, despite a waiver [...] Full text...
‘She had a syringe, razor blade, and bandages’: Surviving genital mutilation (By Fabrice Robinet, UN News)
MA Djibouti City, Djibouti (PANA) - Some 230 million girls in more than 90 countries – predominantly in Africa and Asia – have undergone female genital [...] Full text...
‘Step Up the Pace’ and end female genital mutilation, UN says
MA New York, US (PANA) - As the world marked the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female genital Mutilationon Thursday, the United Nations is warning [...] Full text...
‘The new generation is different’: In Djibouti, activists lobby to end female genital mutilation (A UNFPA feature)
MA Djibouti City, Djibouti (PANA) - “I still see the knife, and the lady who held me down,” said Hawa’a Mohamed Kamil, a peer educator in [...] Full text...
WHO: Some 135,000 women in Africa could die from breast cancer by 2040
MA Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - An estimated 135,000 women could die from preventable breast cancer by 2040 in sub-Saharan Africa without urgent action, the World Health [...] Full text...
WHO honours people affected by cancer on World Day against the disease
MA Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN health agency, WHO, on Tuesday honoured the courage of people affected by cancer and celebrated scientific progress to treat [...] Full text...
WHO chief asks US to reconsider withdrawal from UN health agency
MA Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday he would “welcome constructive dialogue” with the United States Government [...] Full text...
Eastern DR Congo crisis increasing risk of mpox transmission, WHO chief warns
WA Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The worsening security situation in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has forced many mpox patients to flee treatment [...] Full text...
Sudan virus disease reported in Uganda
WA Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - The Uganda Ministry of Health on 30 January 2025, declared an outbreak of Sudan virus disease (SVD) following confirmation from three [...] Full text...
Neglected tropical diseases: Niger becomes first in WHO African Region to eliminate onchocerciasis
MA Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Niger has met the criteria for elimination of onchocerciasis, making it the fifth country in the world and the first country [...] Full text...
WHO confirms outbreak of deadly virus in Uganda
MA Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday confirmed an outbreak of Sudan virus disease in Uganda, which is part of the Ebola [...] Full text...
UNAIDS welcomes US decision to keep funding life-saving HIV treatment
MA New York, US (PANA) - UNAIDS has welcomed Wednesday’s emergency waiver from the United States Secretary of State that will allow the continuation of life-saving [...] Full text...
DR Congo crisis: A public health ‘nightmare’ is unfolding, warns WHO
MA Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - As UN agencies reported “relative calm” on Wednesday in the city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), [...] Full text...
WHO leads call to fight neglected disease scourge
MA Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN World Health Organization (WHO) has appealed for concerted action to tackle neglected tropical diseases, which impact more than one [...] Full text...
WHO chief Tedros advises against travel restrictions to Tanzania in Marburg outbreak
MA Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The head of the UN World Health Organization (WHO) has advised against travel restrictions linked to the Marburg virus [...] Full text...
WHO prepares to support Tanzanian Government in Marburg virus response
MA Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Following reports of suspected viral haemorrhagic fever cases in Tanzania, the World Health Organization (WHO) has ramped up its readiness to [...] Full text...
WHO launches $1.5 billion appeal to tackle global health crises
MA Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The world is facing an extraordinary convergence of crises that has left 305 million people in urgent need of humanitarian assistance. In [...] Full text...
$82 million committed to Sudan’s crippled health system
MA Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - The World Bank, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have signed an $82 million agreement [...] Full text...
Ghana cholera outbreak deaths rise to at least 40
MA Accra, Ghana (PANA) - A cholera outbreak in Ghana has so far claimed at least 40 lives, the Ghana News Agency (GNA) has reported.It quoted [...] Full text...
Medical charity suspends work in Khartoum hospital following attacks by militia
MO Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Friday strongly condemned ongoing violent attacks on patients and staff at Bashair Teaching Hospital, [...] Full text...
South African institute downplays threat of Chinese virus
CU Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa’s National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) on Thursday said there is no need to panic about the [...] Full text...
Avian flu risk still ‘low’ after first US patient dies from H5N1 virus: WHO
MA Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A day after the United States reported its first human death from avian flu, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) insisted [...] Full text...
‘Hospitals have become battlegrounds’: Gaza’s health system on brink of collapse
MA New York, US (PANA) - With seven per cent of the population killed or injured since October 2023, the health crisis in Gaza shows no [...] Full text...
Israel attacks push Gaza healthcare ‘to brink of collapse’
MA Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Israel’s pattern of deadly attacks on and near hospitals in Gaza, and associated combat, have pushed the healthcare system to the [...] Full text...
WHO continues to urge China to share data five years after COVID-19
MA Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) this week reflected on COVID-19, and ongoing efforts to understand the disease, five years after its [...] Full text...
Global solidarity key to future pandemic preparedness, says UN chief
MA New York, US (PANA) - In a message commemorating Friday’s International Day of Epidemic Preparedness, UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged all nations to invest in [...] Full text...
Acute respiratory infections complicated by malaria detected in DRC
WA Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - A Disease Outbreak News (DON) has been posted for Acute respiratory infections complicated by malaria (previously undiagnosed disease) in the Democratic [...] Full text...
Cholera outbreak claims 35 lives in Ghana
MA Accra, Ghana (PANA) - A cholera outbreak in Ghana has claimed 35 lives, the Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr. Patrick Kuma Aboagye, [...] Full text...
COVID-19 epidemiological update – 24 December 2024
WA Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, largely circulates without clear seasonality and continues to infect, causing severe acute disease and post-COVID-19 [...] Full text...
Avian flu reported in 108 countries across five continents, says WHO
MA Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Avian influenza has caused the deaths of more than 300 million birds worldwide and the virus “is increasingly crossing species barriers”, [...] Full text...
WHO Director-General calls for support for WHO Academy
WA Lyon, France (PANA) - The WHO Director-General Tuesday called for partnerships and collaboration for the WHO Academy to enable it to drive lifelong learning in [...] Full text...
Quality, affordable health services for 1.5 billion people: A vision for healthier, more resilient world: World Bank Blog By Juan Pablo Uribe and Monique Vledder
AR Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - The scale of the global health challenge is staggering. Global megatrends—such as decreasing investments in health systems, climate change, and [...] Full text...
New WHO report reveals governments deprioritizing health spending
WA Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The 2024 Global Heath Expenditure Report by the World Health Organization (WHO) shows that the average per capita government spending on [...] Full text...