Women's health suffers in Sudan amidst raging conflict, funding cuts

06 june 2025 - 07:57:15 MA

Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - As hostilities rage in Sudan, access constraints and devastating funding cuts are isolating rape survivors and pregnant women from essential [...] Full text...

AIDS still killing one person every minute as funding cuts stall progress

06 june 2025 - 07:05:52 MA

New York, US (PANA) - AIDS-related deaths have dropped to their lowest level since 2004, but progress remains precarious, with the disease still claiming one [...] Full text...

WHO greenlights two new vaccines

01 june 2025 - 05:08:30 MA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN World Health Organisation on Friday issued recommendations for two new immunisation tools. They are a maternal vaccine, administered to pregnant [...] Full text...

WHO Director-General, Member States reaffirm commitment to WHO and global health at historic World Health Assembly

31 may 2025 - 15:18:46 WA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus praised the commitment shown by the Organization’s Member States which, during nearly two weeks of [...] Full text...

Flavoured nicotine products driving youth addiction, WHO warns

31 may 2025 - 09:45:51 MA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - For most nicotine users today, their first experience with the drug is a flavoured product – making it easier, and more [...] Full text...

Cholera, conflict-driven displacement deepen needs in Sudan

30 may 2025 - 11:38:18 AR

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – Humanitarian needs in Sudan continue to grow, driven by the rapid spread of cholera and continued displacement due to the ongoing [...] Full text...

Menstrual hygiene: a 'silent emergency' for women and girls in Gaza

30 may 2025 - 07:02:47 MA

Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - As Palestinians in Gaza continue to fall deeper into the abyss on day 600 of the war, nearly 700,000 women [...] Full text...

New project to boost Tunisia’s health system and pandemic response

29 may 2025 - 07:56:31 AR

Washington, DC, United States (PANA) - The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors on Wednesday approved US$125.16 million in financing — including a US$17.16 million [...] Full text...

Pandemics to pollution: WHO Assembly delivers landmark health decisions

29 may 2025 - 06:07:13 MA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The 78th World Health Assembly concluded on Tuesday in Geneva, marking several major milestones in global health. Delegates adopted the world’s first [...] Full text...

Over a million children at risk as cholera spreads in Sudan’s Khartoum State

28 may 2025 - 16:11:17 MO

Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA)- The UN Children Fund (UNICEF) has claimed that more than 7,700 cholera cases - including over 1,000 cases in children under [...] Full text...

Sudan conflict triggers regional health crisis, warns WHO

28 may 2025 - 07:05:13 MA

Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - As the war between rival militaries in Sudan continues, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has raised alarm over the escalating [...] Full text...

Botswana leads the way in eliminating mother-to-child transmission of HIV

27 may 2025 - 07:36:59 MA

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - In a historic global health milestone, Botswana has been validated as the first high HIV-burden country in the world, and the [...] Full text...

What’s your poison? Alcohol linked to higher risk of pancreatic cancer

26 may 2025 - 18:24:49 WA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Alcoholic drinks, especially beer and spirits, may raise the risk of pancreatic cancer, a new UN study has found.The research, led [...] Full text...

Public health champions honoured for work ‘beyond the call of normal duty’

24 may 2025 - 07:44:50 MA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Some patients are easy to diagnose. They walk into a clinic and explain their symptoms. They can afford to pay for [...] Full text...

Nations adopt historic pledge to guard against future pandemics

21 may 2025 - 04:48:41 MA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - After three years of negotiations sparked by the COVID-19 crisis, countries have adopted the first ever international agreement to better prevent, [...] Full text...

Director-General’s Award for Global Health given to Professor Awa Marie Coll Seck and Professor Sir Brian Greenwood

20 may 2025 - 20:25:17 WA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) -  In recognition of their lifetime achievements in global health, specifically in malaria elimination and beyond, WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus [...] Full text...

In historic move, WHO Member States approve 20% funding increase and 2026-27 budget

20 may 2025 - 19:55:16 WA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) -- In a show of support for a sustainably financed World Health Organization, WHO Member States Tuesday approved a 20% increase in [...] Full text...

World Health Assembly opens amid high-stakes pandemic treaty vote, global funding crisis

20 may 2025 - 04:48:51 MA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The 78th World Health Assembly opened on Monday with a broad appeal to global solidarity, as delegates from around the world gather [...] Full text...

Tanzanian Professor Mohamed Yakub Janabi nominated as next director of WHO African Region

19 may 2025 - 08:36:20 MA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) – Professor Mohamed Yakub Janabi was on Sunday nominated as the next Regional Director of the World Health Organisation (WHO) African Region [...] Full text...

Nursing workforce grows, but deep inequalities persist worldwide

13 may 2025 - 07:10:41 MA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The number of nurses around the world has increased in recent years, but a new UN report published on Monday shows that [...] Full text...

UNFPA calls on US to reconsider ban on future funding

10 may 2025 - 08:20:52 MA

New York, US (PANA) - The United States’ decision to halt future funding to the UN sexual and reproductive health agency, UNFPA, will slash critical [...] Full text...

Hospital bombing deepens bleak situation for war-weary South Sudanese

07 may 2025 - 07:23:22 MA

Juba, South Sudan (PANA) - Aid teams in South Sudan warned on Tuesday that repeated attacks on healthcare including the bombing of a hospital in [...] Full text...

More than 30-year difference in life expectancy highlights health inequities

06 may 2025 - 12:59:37 MA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Where you're born could be the difference between living over three decades longer than someone else from a poorer country lacking [...] Full text...

WHO chief laments most disruptive cuts to global health funding ‘in living memory’

02 may 2025 - 08:12:50 MA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - As sudden budget cuts severely impact global health funding, prolonged conflicts around the world are fuelling disease outbreaks and posing a [...] Full text...

Anthrax outbreak compounds security crisis in eastern DR Congo

02 may 2025 - 07:52:39 MA

Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - An anthrax outbreak is compounding the worsening security situation in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), driving up humanitarian needs [...] Full text...

One in four female genital mutilation cases now carried out by health workers

29 april 2025 - 07:34:13 MA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Female genital mutilation (FGM) is becoming less common worldwide, but when it does occur, it is increasingly performed by professional healthcare [...] Full text...

More action needed to beat malaria for good, says WHO

25 april 2025 - 05:19:10 MA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Although strong global collaboration has helped to save nearly 13 million lives from malaria over the past 25 years, more action [...] Full text...

Largely eradicated diseases at risk of returning due to budget cuts: WHO

24 april 2025 - 07:11:47 MA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Vaccines have saved around 150 million lives over the past 50 years, but that progress is now under threat. Cuts to global [...] Full text...

'Malaria is an African problem and Africa must find the solution'

23 april 2025 - 14:53:13 MA

Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - Africa still bears the brunt of the global malaria burden—with 94% of cases occurring on the continent, according to the World Health [...] Full text...

Stopping child marriage is key to curbing deadly teen pregnancies: WHO

23 april 2025 - 12:17:58 MA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Teenage pregnancy remains the leading cause of death among 15-19-year-old girls which countries could help prevent by keeping girls in school [...] Full text...

Africa CDC and WHO update mpox strategy as outbreaks persist

17 april 2025 - 18:30:23 WA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Africa CDC and WHO have updated their joint Continental Response Plan for the mpox emergency as the disease continues to affect [...] Full text...

Countries finalise historic pandemic agreement after three years of negotiations

16 april 2025 - 13:09:14 MA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - In the early hours of Wednesday morning in Geneva, countries finalised a draft global agreement aimed at improving how the world [...] Full text...

Foreign aid cuts jeopardise malaria control efforts: WHO

14 april 2025 - 08:17:53 MA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Since 2000, investments in the global malaria response have prevented more than 2 billion cases and nearly 13 million deaths. Yet efforts [...] Full text...

Preventable ‘meningitis belt’ deaths targeted in health agency action plan

10 april 2025 - 12:53:27 MA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Millions of deaths could be avoided from meningitis if countries are able to adopt new guidelines designed to diagnose and treat [...] Full text...

Children die while walking long distances in South Sudan to seek medical treatment for cholera

09 april 2025 - 11:16:04 MA

Juba, South Sudan (PANA) - At least five children with cholera in South Sudan have died on an arduous journey to seek medical treatment, after [...] Full text...

‘Let us be bold’: Global leaders reaffirm health as a human right

08 april 2025 - 06:51:21 MA

New York, US (PANA) - Progress towards the universal healthcare goal has been undeniable: barriers to health services, education and family planning have been almost [...] Full text...

Guinea to increase access to water, sanitation with WBG support

07 april 2025 - 08:15:22 AR

 Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - The World Bank Group (WBG) has approved a $200 million credit from the International Development Association (IDA) for the Guinea Water [...] Full text...

Aid cuts threaten to roll back progress in ending maternal mortality

07 april 2025 - 07:27:47 MA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Unprecedented aid cuts are putting global progress to end maternal deaths at risk, three UN agencies warned in a new report [...] Full text...

World Health Day: Focusing on women’s physical and mental health around the world

06 april 2025 - 14:48:04 MA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Monday’s World Health Day highlights a critical issue for global health: the particular vulnerabilities faced by women and girls.Close to 300,000 women [...] Full text...

Global cholera cases surge worldwide

06 april 2025 - 05:18:52 MA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A global surge in cholera is threatening vulnerable people from Angola to Myanmar, fuelled by conflict, natural disasters and climate change, [...] Full text...

WHO brings countries together to test collective pandemic response

04 april 2025 - 20:06:23 WA

 Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Over the past two days, WHO convened more than 15 countries and over 20 regional health agencies, health emergency networks and [...] Full text...

Investing in nutrition is smart economics: World Bank Blog By Axel van Trotsenburg, World Bank Senior Managing Director

02 april 2025 - 12:57:18 AR

Porto-Novo, Benin (PANA) - Felicienne Soton is part of a women's group that produces gari (cassava flour). She and her group in Adjegounle village have [...] Full text...

Guterres calls for greater equality and inclusion as world marks Autism Awareness Day

02 april 2025 - 07:55:41 MA

New York, US (PANA) - Although people with autism are making enormous contributions to societies across the globe, they still face significant challenges. UN Secretary-General Antonio [...] Full text...

DRC: Outbreaks of infectious diseases due to depletion of stocks due to budget cuts

30 march 2025 - 06:44:39 MA

Goma, DRC (PANA) - The near-total depletion of medical supplies, due to budget cuts and blocked access, is leading to outbreaks of infectious diseases in [...] Full text...

Deadly impacts of childhood stunting can be prevented, WFP insists

26 march 2025 - 18:54:32 MA

Paris, France (PANA) - Childhood stunting from malnutrition is a global but preventable problem if adequate investment can be found, the UN World Food Programme [...] Full text...

Decades of progress in reducing child deaths and stillbirths at risk, UN warns

25 march 2025 - 16:00:50 MA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The number of children around the world dying before their fifth birthday stands at a record low – but this achievement [...] Full text...

UN agency warns of ‘surge’ in AIDS deaths without US funding

25 march 2025 - 05:33:05 MA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Amid continuing uncertainty about the impact of deep US funding cuts to humanitarian work worldwide, the head of the UN agency [...] Full text...

UNICEF condemns looting of life-saving supplies for children from Khartoum hospital

21 march 2025 - 14:00:02 MA

Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) – The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Friday condemned in the strongest possible terms the looting of vital humanitarian supplies—intended to [...] Full text...

WHO gives clean bill of health to cities taking action on preventable diseases

21 march 2025 - 08:21:13 MA

Paris, France (PANA) - Three cities that share a healthy vision for their residents won UN World Health Organisation awards on Thursday for their smoke-free [...] Full text...

Fighting malnutrition in Burundi: Mothers of Light are rays of hope: World Bank Blog By Hawa Cisse Wague, Country Manager for Burundi

21 march 2025 - 07:36:26 AR

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Despite the fertile soil in Burundi, it is unfortunate to see that one in every two children under the age of [...] Full text...