Luanda, Angola (PANA) - The authorities in Angola, supported by UN agencies, have initiated a vaccination campaign to curb the spread of polio and protect [...] Full text...
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Monday called on Nigeria to intensify child protection efforts, 10 years on from the mass [...] Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - World Immunization Week, celebrated in the last week of April, aims to highlight the collective action needed to protect people from [...] Full text...
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) ‒ African heads of state have agreed on key measures to revamp routine immunization across the continent following massive disruptions by the [...] Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Preparations for a vaccination campaign in Libya targeting children aged 0-5 years, scheduled for the middle of this year, against polio, [...] Full text...
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The Health authorities in Mauritius announced on Monday that for the first time the national Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccination campaign, will target [...] Full text...
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - African Union Member States renewed their commitments towards nutrition on the continent at a high-level event of the 2022 African [...] Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Measles vaccination coverage has steadily declined since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) said here Friday.
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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The Mauritian Ministry of Health and Wellness on Thursday launched the 2022 National Nutrition Survey with the objective to study food [...] Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Official data published by UN agencies on Friday shows the largest sustained decline in childhood vaccination rates in approximately 30 years, with [...] Full text...
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission will on Friday launch the mass vaccination campaign against ovine rinderpest (PPR) [...] Full text...
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The Mauritian Ministry of Health and Wellness will conduct the fourth Mauritius Nutrition Survey this year.
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Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The Ghana Health Service (GHS), worried by fears that some Ghanaian are hesitating to receive the coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines, has warned [...] Full text...
Pretoria, South Africa (PANA) - About a third of all adults in South Africa have received at least one Covid-19 vaccination dose, according to the [...] Full text...
Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Botswana’s President Mokgweetsi Masisi has announced that the country has vaccinated ten percent of its population against the coronavirus (COVID-19).
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Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - The mining industry has vaccinated, or partially vaccinated, 203 007 employees and contractors in South Africa – that is about 45% [...] Full text...
Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Botyswana Network on Ethic, Law and HIV/AIDS (BONELA), a human rights organization in Botswana, Wednesday kicked against making COVID-19 vaccination mandatory, [...] Full text...
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Healthcare professionals across the African continent have been investing in the restoration of maternal healthcare services after an initial disruption caused [...] Full text...
Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) – Botswana’s Ministry of Basic Education has announced intentions to vaccinate all teachers ahead of opening of schools end of August.
Fidelis Molao, [...] Full text...
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Burundi on Wednesday launched the 2021 edition of the Week dedicated to maternal and child health, for the benefit of 5.2 [...] Full text...
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The European Union High Representative has stressed the need to close the vaccination gap between advanced economies and developing countries to [...] Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A UN-led global immunization strategy was unveiled on Monday to reach more than 50 million children who have missed lifesaving jabs against [...] Full text...
Juba, South Sudan (PANA) - The second round of a vaccination campaign to protect more than 2.8 million children from polio is underway in South [...] Full text...
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian health authorities on Wednesday launched a Maternal and Child Health Handbook, aiming at empowering women to make informed decisions about [...] Full text...
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) – Ahead of the United Nations Special Session of the General Assembly on COVID-19, on 3-4 December 2020, UNICEF and other child [...] Full text...
GENEVA, Switzerland (PANA) - The UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO) Friday called for an urgent action to avert major measles and polio epidemics [...] Full text...
Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The African Leaders for Nutrition (ALN) have unveiled a position paper calling upon African Heads of State and Government to [...] Full text...
Juba, South Sudan (PANA) - The government and other education actors in South Sudan should intensify the fight against sexual violence and child marriages as [...] Full text...
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) handed over 50 motorcycles to Congo on Friday to boost the capacities of health districts [...] Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) – The World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned on Wednesday of "an alarming decline" in the number of [...] Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Global experts in health and child welfare have again highlighted how the COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting access to routine immunization services [...] Full text...
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – This year’s Africa Vaccination Week started on Friday as the COVID-19 pandemic is causing significant disruption to vaccination efforts and to the [...] Full text...
Brazzaville, Congo PANA) – Public health systems in Africa are coming under severe strain as the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic persists, the the World Health Organization (WHO) [...] Full text...
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - A total of 3,254,425 Burkinabé children, between the ages of 9 and 59 months, were vaccinated during a campaign against [...] Full text...
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Several thousand children aged 15 to 23 months in Kayes town, capital of Kayes region in western Mali, will receive the [...] Full text...
Niamey, Niger (PANA) - Nigerien minister in charge of Livestock, Mohamed Boucha Monday launched the national campaign of free vaccination of livestock 2019-2020 edition in [...] Full text...
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) is expected to launch measles vaccination campaign in North Kivu, in eastern Democratic Republic of the [...] Full text...
Mogadishu, Somalia (PANA) - A campaign to vaccinate some 1.7 million children in Somalia was launched on Sunday by the country’s government, in partnership with [...] Full text...
Mogadishu, Somalia (PANA) - Some of the child protection approaches used by the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) could be adopted as best practices [...] Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A first batch of 400,000 doses of BCG vaccines for the prevention of the tuberculosis virus, aimed at newborns, was distributed [...] Full text...
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The Speaker of the Congolese Parliament, Isidore Mvouba, at the opening of its seventh ordinary session here Thursday announced that Congo [...] Full text...
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - An alarmingly high number of children sufferer the consequences of poor diets and a food system that is failing them, UNICEF [...] Full text...
Niamey, Niger (PANA) - More than 100 percent of children from zero to five months have been vaccinated in a campaign in Niger, the immunization [...] Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN World Health Organization’s (WHO) has said in its latest guidelines on improving nutrition that if governments boost their focus [...] Full text...
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) – DR Congo’s president, Felix Tshisekedi, has restated his commitment to make vaccination a major force for the universal health coverage [...] Full text...
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - As the Global Vaccine Action Plan (GAVP 2011-2020) nears its conclusion, a regional consultation has been held this week in Brazzaville by [...] Full text...
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) is currently mobilising experts to step up its response in Burkina Faso to help the country [...] Full text...
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - About 800,000 pregnant and lactating women, 2 million children under 5 and 5 million boys and girls under the age of [...] Full text...
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Eleven out of 100 children are not vaccinated in Benin, according to the results of the Fifth demographic and health survey [...] Full text...
Bamako, Mali (PANA) – About 548,000 people, or 2.35% of the Malian population face food insecurity and need relief assistance for survival between July and [...] Full text...