Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritius has recorded 316 active cases of dengue fever in the island, of which 50 have been hospitalised in both public [...] Full text...
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - A new World Bank report calls for urgent action to strengthen the resilience of Ghana’s health system against the adverse effects [...] Full text...
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Cervical cancer – often resulting from an infection by the human papillomavirus (HPV) – is a preventable disease. Yet, [...] Full text...
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Health experts from across Africa, policymakers, civil society organizations and partners who met last week for the first-ever conference on [...] Full text...
Monrovia, Liberia (PANA) — In a significant step forward for malaria prevention in Africa, three countries—Benin, Liberia and Sierra Leone—last week launched a large-scale rollout of [...] Full text...
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – A pioneering health investment charter, a first for the African region, is set to be launched at the African Health Workforce Investment [...] Full text...
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - After over six months of relentless war, Gaza’s healthcare workers have had to face unprecedented challenges to provide medical assistance to [...] Full text...
Washington, DC, US (PANA) – African governments are falling far short in their commitments to prioritise public spending on health care, contributing to widespread inequalities [...] Full text...
Antananarivo, Madagascar (PANA) - Madagascar, is one of the countries most affected by malaria. According to the Ministry of Public Health, the reported number of malaria [...] Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Antibiotics saw “extensive overuse” globally among hospitalized COVID-19 patients during the pandemic without improving clinical outcomes, while also potentially exacerbating the already [...] Full text...
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Unexpected blistering temperatures across Gaza have added to the daily misery faced by the enclave’s people and sparked new fears of [...] Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Smoking and drinking is on the rise among teenagers in Europe, Central Asia and Canada, and girls now match or even exceed [...] Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Two UN agencies alongside the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the global vaccine alliance Gavi on Wednesday launched a campaign [...] Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A new oral vaccine for cholera has received prequalification by the World Health Organization (WHO).
The inactivated oral vaccine Euvichol-S, approved on [...] Full text...
Washington, USA (PANA) - The World Bank Group on Thursday announced an ambitious plan to support countries in delivering quality, affordable health services to 1.5 [...] Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The ongoing global spread of “bird flu” infections to mammals, including humans, is a significant public health concern, senior UN medics [...] Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - African women are 130 times more likely to die due to pregnancy or childbirth complications than women in Europe and [...] Full text...
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The Alliance francophone des acteurs de santé contre le VIH et les infections virales chroniques ou émergentes (French-speaking alliance of healthcare [...] Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Nigeria has become the first country to roll out a “revolutionary” five-in-one vaccine against meningitis, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said [...] Full text...
Washington, DC, US (PANA) – New data from the World Health Organisation (WHO) shows that many governments around the world did not meet public healthcare [...] Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The number of lives lost due to viral hepatitis infections is increasing and already accounts for 3,500 deaths daily, according to [...] Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Only one in two countries offer guaranteed healthcare and educational access to all migrants, UN migration experts said on Monday.
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Antananarivo, Madagascar (PANA) - A young mother in Madagascar has been describing how she was forced to make a 200km emergency journey on challenging rural [...] Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN World Health Organisation (WHO) is on Sunday launching a new campaign to champion the right to health of everyone, [...] Full text...
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - With the largest hospital in Gaza largely destroyed and out of action, access to healthcare has now become “totally inadequate” following [...] Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Ramadan Boujnah, deputy prime minister and acting minister of Health in the government of national unity, Saturday inaugurated the Janzour kidney [...] Full text...
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritius reported 231 active cases of Dengue Fever in the island as at 4 April 2024, the Government Information Service (GIS) [...] Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A massive cholera-busting initiative partnered by the UN is underway, with more than 1.2 million rapid diagnostic tests for the disease [...] Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) said here Friday that more than 1.2 million cholera rapid diagnostic tests will be shipped to [...] Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Two experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council have joined the growing international condemnation over the wholesale destruction and killing at [...] Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The destruction of Gaza’s largest hospital following a two-week siege by the Israeli military has “ripped the heart out of healthcare” in the [...] Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Prime Minister, Abdulhamid Aldabaiba, has stressed the need to pay attention to the supply of vaccines to primary health [...] Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for ensuring an inclusive and accessible world for all in his message to mark World Autism [...] Full text...
Juba, South Sudan (PANA) - A measles crisis is mounting in South Sudan’s Western Equatoria state, just as health authorities struggle to overcome a yellow [...] Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Gaza’s health system is ‘barely surviving’ after more than five months of Israeli bombardment, the head of the UN World Health [...] Full text...
Victoria, Seychelles (PANA) ‒ In a further move towards pooled procurement of essential medicines and medical products, Ministers of Health from small African islands states have [...] Full text...
Mogadidhu, Somalia (PANA) - Cholera has killed nine people in the last week across Somalia and more than 50 in recent months, UN aid teams [...] Full text...
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The US will on Monday launch the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) Nursing Leadership Initiative across seven African [...] Full text...
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Gambian President Adama Barrow has called for collaboration between the government and key stakeholders in the fight against cancer.
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union's Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has called on the global community to consider including health emergencies [...] Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan Prime Minister, Abdulhamid al Dbaiba, on Wednesday stressed the need to construct public warehouses for the Medical Supplies Agency in [...] Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) – Immediate action is needed to stem an unprecedented multi-year upsurge in cholera cases worldwide, according to the International Coordinating Group (ICG) [...] Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Cases of Mpox are falling everywhere except in Africa, a UN health agency expert panel has said, warning that the virus [...] Full text...
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Scientists are progressing to the third phase trial of a candidate vaccine to prevent Tuberculosis, which is likely to assist millions [...] Full text...
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The second cancer screening campaign for women in Benin's prisons was launched on Tuesday at the Cotonou prison, according to judicial [...] Full text...
Paris, France (PANA) - Tuberculosis (TB) in children is a silent scourge: one child dies of TB every three minutes and more than half of [...] Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The head of the UN health agency issued an appeal on Monday to the international community not to miss the chance [...] Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN World Health Organisation (WHO) on Monday called for a funding boost in tuberculosis (TB) screening and prevention programmes to [...] Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 6,659 cancer patients have been registered in Libya out of a total of 20,000 targeted in the country, [...] Full text...
N’djamena, Chad (PANA) – Hepatitis E is spreading through refugee camps in eastern Chad where more than 550,000 Sudanese fleeing the conflict in neighbouring Sudan [...] Full text...