21 november 2024 - 13:59:34
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - UN humanitarians warned on Thursday that one in four people in the Democratic Republic of [...] Full text...
17 november 2024 - 15:22:36
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - During the first 14 months of the Sudan conflict, there have been more violent deaths [...] Full text...
16 november 2024 - 07:25:08
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (PANA) - The top UN health official gave a sobering reality check as the Fourth Global High-Level [...] Full text...
15 november 2024 - 13:30:08
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) – Worldwide, there were an estimated 10.3 million cases of measles in 2023, a 20% increase from [...] Full text...
15 november 2024 - 06:03:19
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A surge in measles cases has reached 10.3 million worldwide in 2023, marking a 20 percent [...] Full text...
12 november 2024 - 17:38:00
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - The US Special Envoy to the Sudan, Tom Perriello, has condemned reports that civilians were [...] Full text...
12 november 2024 - 07:10:38
Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - For Patience Ataliba, who lives in the Ugandan capital of Kampala, commuting was once a harrowing [...] Full text...
11 november 2024 - 16:41:20
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - A human tragedy is unfolding before the eyes of the world as bitter fighting in [...] Full text...
08 november 2024 - 13:07:17
Rome, Italy (PANA) - Most of the hidden costs of agrifood systems worldwide stem from health impacts linked to non-communicable [...] Full text...
07 november 2024 - 05:49:53
New York, US (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, has called for “urgent international support” as [...] Full text...
06 november 2024 - 19:33:35
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The Access and Allocation Mechanism (AAM) for mpox has allocated an initial 899 000 vaccine doses [...] Full text...
06 november 2024 - 05:42:49
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - In a historic health milestone, Sudan has launched its first malaraia vaccination campaign amid 18 [...] Full text...
06 november 2024 - 05:19:42
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A new study by the World Health Organisation (WHO) lists 17 bacteria, viruses and parasites that [...] Full text...
05 november 2024 - 22:08:09
Malabo, Equatorial Guinea (PANA) - Vice-President Teodoro Obiang Mangue has warned that civil servants caught having sex in their offices [...] Full text...
05 november 2024 - 08:01:21
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Lead is in materials all around us, often unseen. From factories, mines and spices to being [...] Full text...
05 november 2024 - 05:36:30
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Thousands of delegates on Monday joined United Nations representatives gathered in Cairo to kick off the [...] Full text...
05 november 2024 - 05:21:06
New York, US (PANA) - The UN-supported polio vaccine campaign concluded in besieged northern Gaza on Monday, with agencies inoculating [...] Full text...
05 november 2024 - 05:12:49
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Aid entering Gaza reached a new low in October, the head of UN Palestine refugee agency [...] Full text...
04 november 2024 - 12:47:23
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - War in Sudan has devastated towns and cities across the country and pushed the healthcare system [...] Full text...
02 november 2024 - 06:47:53
Juba, South Sudan (PANA) - South Sudan is facing a spiralling humanitarian crisis with hunger and cholera cases escalating in [...] Full text...
01 november 2024 - 21:53:54
Addis Ababa, Ehiopia (PANA) - Between 1 January and 20 October 2024, over 7.3 million malaria cases and 1157 deaths [...] Full text...
01 november 2024 - 17:38:38
New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has “strongly” condemned the recent attacks by Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support [...] Full text...
01 november 2024 - 15:48:12
Addis Ababa, Ehiopia (PANA) - Between 1 January and 20 October 2024, over 7.3 million malaria cases and 1157 deaths [...] Full text...
30 october 2024 - 06:10:39
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Escalating violence and new atrocities in Sudan have pushed the humanitarian crisis to unprecedented levels, with [...] Full text...
29 october 2024 - 22:20:42
Washington D.C., USA (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) Tuesday published a new report on tuberculosis revealing that approximately [...] Full text...
29 october 2024 - 20:54:23
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - In October 2024, WHO and partners, in collaboration with Member States, activated the Global Health Emergency [...] Full text...
29 october 2024 - 10:02:58
New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned on Monday the people of Sudan are trapped in a [...] Full text...
25 october 2024 - 18:26:22
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA)- The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) has lamented that war in Sudan has hit the children section [...] Full text...
24 october 2024 - 05:45:25
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Intense bombardments, mass displacements and lack of access in northern Gaza have forced the postponement of [...] Full text...
23 october 2024 - 08:51:42
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) – International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff and the Rwandan authorities have reached staff-level agreement on policies needed [...] Full text...
22 october 2024 - 18:10:21
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - An international charity organization has warned that famine has now hit half of Sudan’s states [...] Full text...
22 october 2024 - 05:20:03
New York, US (PANA) - The UN Security Council on Monday explored the dual-edged nature of rapid technological advancements – [...] Full text...
21 october 2024 - 11:04:32
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Professor Ramou Njie, a liver specialist at the University of The Gambia, has disclosed that liver [...] Full text...
20 october 2024 - 19:52:50
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) has certified Egypt as malaria-free, marking a significant public health milestone [...] Full text...
15 october 2024 - 13:11:36
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritius' Minister for Health and Quality of Life, Kailash Jagutpal, said on Tuesday that cardiovascular diseases, [...] Full text...
15 october 2024 - 11:56:33
New York, US (PANA) - Nearly two million children suffering from severe wasting, also known as severe acute malnutrition, are [...] Full text...
14 october 2024 - 11:49:22
Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - A second round of polio vaccinations for thousands of children began in central Gaza on [...] Full text...
11 october 2024 - 18:59:20
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The WHO on 10 October issued advice against travel and trade restrictions with Rwanda in the [...] Full text...
10 october 2024 - 12:54:39
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - A study of the prevalence of work-related stress among teachers in the city of Ouagadougou [...] Full text...
08 october 2024 - 05:21:26
New York, US (PANA) - The UN aid coordination office, OCHA, voiced deep concern on Monday over the siege of [...] Full text...
05 october 2024 - 05:20:49
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) announced on Friday that it has approved the first mpox diagnostic [...] Full text...
04 october 2024 - 10:00:15
Freetown, Sierra Leone (PANA) – With the support of the World Health Organization (WHO) and international and national partners, Sierra [...] Full text...
04 october 2024 - 05:06:53
New York, US (PANA) - Authorities in Somalia remain focused on national priorities, and the battle against Al-Shabaab terrorists is [...] Full text...
03 october 2024 - 13:27:03
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The Ghana Health Service (GHS) on Thursday confirmed the first case of mpox in the west [...] Full text...
03 october 2024 - 05:31:52
New York, US (PANA) - New estimates from humanitarians in East Africa indicate that nearly 67 million people in the [...] Full text...
01 october 2024 - 20:25:18
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) has congratulated Brazil for having eliminated lymphatic filariasis as a public [...] Full text...
01 october 2024 - 16:00:26
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The Rwanda Ministry of Health on 27 September 2024, announced the confirmation of Marburg virus disease [...] Full text...
30 september 2024 - 11:24:37
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – Rwandan health authorities are intensifying outbreak control efforts following the detection of Marburg virus disease, with 26 [...] Full text...
25 september 2024 - 14:20:25
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday released guidance to improve the design, conduct and oversight [...] Full text...
24 september 2024 - 14:39:49
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The Africa Regional Office of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Federation of Red [...] Full text...
24 september 2024 - 12:58:12
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - At the time Sudan’s military leader Gen Abdul Fatah Al Burhan left the country for [...] Full text...
23 september 2024 - 20:50:32
New York, US (PANA) - Execution is starting under the new Health Impact Investment Platform on the first country health [...] Full text...
20 september 2024 - 14:38:39
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, issued an urgent appeal on Friday for nearly $59 million to [...] Full text...
20 september 2024 - 07:32:56
New York, US (PANA) - Last October’s attacks by Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups on Israeli communities marked a [...] Full text...
19 september 2024 - 06:00:45
Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund) is supporting the Government [...] Full text...
17 september 2024 - 08:01:52
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - In a significant move to combat the ongoing challenge of variant poliovirus transmission in Central and [...] Full text...
16 september 2024 - 16:57:27
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Overcrowded shelters in Gaza, a lack of running water and the constant threat of disease are [...] Full text...
13 september 2024 - 20:22:59
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) has updated its guidelines for the care of patients with influenza. The [...] Full text...
13 september 2024 - 19:24:53
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organization says it has granted its first authorization for use of a vaccine [...] Full text...
13 september 2024 - 09:24:35
Washington, DC, United States (PANA) - By 2050, one in three people will be over 60 years old. With bold [...] Full text...
13 september 2024 - 05:17:49
Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is stepping up lifesaving support to the Democratic Republic of the Congo [...] Full text...
12 september 2024 - 05:20:59
New York, US (PANA) - The UN says that health workers continue efforts to vaccinate young children in northern Gaza [...] Full text...
11 september 2024 - 18:50:34
New York, US (PANA) - The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, appealed on Wednesday for $21.4 million to urgently scale up [...] Full text...
10 september 2024 - 18:15:05
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The UN Middle East envoy has strongly condemned deadly airstrikes by the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) [...] Full text...
09 september 2024 - 05:28:44
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan’s health system is “near collapse” after 16 months of war have left the country [...] Full text...
07 september 2024 - 05:27:09
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - As African countries grapple with a deadly mpox outbreak, the UN independent expert on the right [...] Full text...
05 september 2024 - 20:23:01
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Unprecedented floods and winds have displaced thousands of families, destroyed homes, and severely damaged critical infrastructure, [...] Full text...
05 september 2024 - 12:55:35
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - From celebrities to civil society, a growing number of people around the world are providing unprecedented [...] Full text...
05 september 2024 - 12:44:38
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Unchecked climate change, wildfires and air pollution continue to have “a spiralling, negative impact on health, [...] Full text...
05 september 2024 - 06:04:22
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - In Gaza, despite the success of the mass polio vaccination campaign so far, UN humanitarians warned [...] Full text...
04 september 2024 - 15:50:16
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) has published global cholera statistics for 2023, showing an increase in [...] Full text...
02 september 2024 - 19:54:44
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The UN-led mass polio vaccination campaign entered its second day in central Gaza on Monday with [...] Full text...
02 september 2024 - 05:01:16
New York, US (PANA) - The UN Chidrlen's Fund (UNICEF) has issued an emergency tender for the procurement of mpox [...] Full text...
31 august 2024 - 07:20:32
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - UN aid teams have reached a tentative agreement with parties involved in the war in Gaza [...] Full text...
30 august 2024 - 06:16:06
New York, United States (PANA) – The UN Security Council met in emergency session in New York on the continuing [...] Full text...
29 august 2024 - 18:45:43
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – Inequitable access to vaccines and high-performance screening tools is hampering efforts to effectively reduce the growing [...] Full text...
28 august 2024 - 11:38:48
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) — In an unprecedented show of unity in support of the World Health Organisation (WHO), 14 African [...] Full text...
28 august 2024 - 11:06:28
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria on Tuesday received 10,000 doses of mpox vaccines, becoming the first country in the African [...] Full text...
28 august 2024 - 05:08:44
New York, US (PANA) - The United Nations has upheld the safety of the polio vaccine that will be administered [...] Full text...
27 august 2024 - 18:58:14
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) warned on Tuesday that the mpox outbreak could have devastating effects [...] Full text...
27 august 2024 - 06:00:42
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – African health ministers and government representatives gathering in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, on Monday kicked off the [...] Full text...
26 august 2024 - 18:40:55
New York, US (PANA) - The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) announced on Monday the arrival of 1.2 million doses of [...] Full text...
24 august 2024 - 04:47:11
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - Ambassador Dr. John Nkengasong, U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator and Senior Bureau Official for Global Health [...] Full text...
24 august 2024 - 04:22:23
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The current mpox outbreak “can be controlled and can be stopped”, the head of the World [...] Full text...
23 august 2024 - 14:54:26
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A 10-month-old girl paralyzed by polio in Gaza has become the first confirmed case of the [...] Full text...
23 august 2024 - 14:54:07
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - Protecting war-weary people in Sudan from a second deadly cholera outbreak is proving a huge [...] Full text...
23 august 2024 - 07:14:37
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Egypt’s sugar production in marketing year 2024/25 (October to September) is forecast to reach 2.6 million [...] Full text...
23 august 2024 - 06:42:23
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The US says it has been supporting the mpox response actions in Africa to fighting [...] Full text...
22 august 2024 - 14:38:52
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The European Union has announced plans to provide some 175,420 doses of mpox vaccines to healp [...] Full text...
22 august 2024 - 11:40:32
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - We’re excited to share lessons from our recent work on the Lusaka Sanitation Project in Zambia [...] Full text...
21 august 2024 - 13:12:44
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The spread of mpox across the Horn, eastern and southern Africa has increased the risk of [...] Full text...
20 august 2024 - 17:43:33
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Mpox is “not the ‘new COVID” and European governments need to show strong political commitment to [...] Full text...
20 august 2024 - 08:09:51
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa’s Department of Health on Tuesday assured the public that the current mpox outbreak [...] Full text...
20 august 2024 - 06:03:32
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The swift spread of a new virulent strain of the mpox virus across Africa triggered the [...] Full text...
20 august 2024 - 05:40:54
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - UN authorities in Sudan on Monday confirmed that truckloads of food and supplies have been [...] Full text...
18 august 2024 - 14:37:14
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - A cholera outbreak has hit highly congested areas hosting people fleeing the fighting in Sudan with [...] Full text...
17 august 2024 - 06:55:23
New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General António Guterres called on Friday for warring parties in Gaza to lay down [...] Full text...
16 august 2024 - 17:01:59
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - UN aid agencies on Friday welcomed the news that the Sudanese authorities will open Adre [...] Full text...
16 august 2024 - 05:14:24
Brazzaville, DR Congo (PANA) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) is supporting African countries to scale up response to curb [...] Full text...
15 august 2024 - 15:07:32
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - As the number of Palestinians killed in Gaza passes the dark milestone of 40,000, UN rights [...] Full text...
15 august 2024 - 05:59:01
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The chief of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared that the rise in mpox cases [...] Full text...
14 august 2024 - 05:14:27
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Mpox has been confirmed in Burundi, one of four countries in Eastern Africa where the disease [...] Full text...
12 august 2024 - 15:58:00
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Amid further evacuation orders issued by the Israeli military in Gaza, UN humanitarians issued a fresh [...] Full text...
10 august 2024 - 12:47:54
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued an invitation for manufacturers of mpox vaccines to submit [...] Full text...
09 august 2024 - 16:40:57
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN human rights office, OHCHR, called on Friday for the Israeli authorities to monitor senior [...] Full text...
08 august 2024 - 18:28:04
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The UN World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday raised the response to the mpox outbreak in [...] Full text...
08 august 2024 - 07:58:48
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Recent developments in Gaza, the wider Middle East, and Sudan, have highlighted the complexities of emergencies [...] Full text...
08 august 2024 - 07:17:52
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) called for an emergency meeting on mpox following [...] Full text...
07 august 2024 - 19:47:52
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) -WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Wednesday announced the passing of Aidan O’Leary, the Director of the [...] Full text...
06 august 2024 - 16:21:45
Maputo, Mozambique (PANA) - Mozambique on Monday reached an important milestone in malaria prevention among children with the introduction of [...] Full text...
06 august 2024 - 15:57:21
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - COVID-19 infections are surging worldwide - including at the Olympics - and are unlikely to decline [...] Full text...
03 august 2024 - 07:25:49
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - UN agencies warned on Friday of the high risk of the further spread of infectious diseases [...] Full text...
02 august 2024 - 07:27:42
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The adoption of a One Health approach in Sudan has the potential to create more resilient [...] Full text...
02 august 2024 - 05:35:31
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The UN Palestine refugee agency, UNRWA, launched a programme on Thursday to get boys and girls [...] Full text...
02 august 2024 - 05:35:15
New York, US (PANA) - Famine is now prevalent in areas of war-torn Sudan and will continue through the next [...] Full text...
31 july 2024 - 12:39:23
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A new UN report published on Wednesday into alleged abuses carried out against thousands of Palestinians detained [...] Full text...
30 july 2024 - 14:02:47
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - In a bid to prevent a polio epidemic in Gaza, UN humanitarians on Tuesday repeated continuing [...] Full text...
27 july 2024 - 05:55:44
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN health agency said on Friday that it is sending more than a million polio [...] Full text...
27 july 2024 - 05:47:01
New York, US (PANA) - Senior UN officials on Friday reiterated the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza, and escalating threat [...] Full text...
26 july 2024 - 07:29:57
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - It seems that Europeans don’t want to give up booze. A UN World Health Organisation (WHO) [...] Full text...
24 july 2024 - 05:46:58
Lilongwe, Malawi (PANA) - UN agencies alongside humanitarian partners in Malawi have launched a Flash Appeal to help millions in [...] Full text...
23 july 2024 - 18:57:08
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - On 14 June 2024, the Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MoHME) of Iran reported the [...] Full text...
23 july 2024 - 07:29:02
Rome, Italy (PANA) - The world’s forests are becoming increasingly susceptible to wildfires and pests due to climate change, according [...] Full text...
21 july 2024 - 06:50:20
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Heavy fighting in Sudan has severely curtailed humanitarian aid deliveries across vast areas of the southeast, [...] Full text...
19 july 2024 - 16:04:37
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - To add to the devastation of war and the complete breakdown of law and order, Gazans [...] Full text...
19 july 2024 - 05:41:29
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Wars are never gender neutral and Gaza is further evidence of this as some one million [...] Full text...
18 july 2024 - 18:39:06
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Immediate action is needed to address human rights abuses in detention centres across the Central African [...] Full text...
16 july 2024 - 05:52:20
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Eight critical global shifts are accelerating a triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature loss, pollution and [...] Full text...
15 july 2024 - 13:27:58
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - New Israeli airstrikes reportedly struck southern and central areas of Gaza on Monday as UN humanitarians [...] Full text...
15 july 2024 - 05:04:12
New York, US (PANA) - Immunization coverage for children worldwide stalled during 2023, leaving around 2.7 million lacking the protection [...] Full text...
13 july 2024 - 05:58:02
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - At least 25 million people have been caught up in the humanitarian crisis in the Democratic [...] Full text...
12 july 2024 - 12:43:55
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) – A Rwandan public health expert, Dr. Richard Mihigo, has kicked off his campaign for the position [...] Full text...
12 july 2024 - 10:58:44
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The World Bank Group’s (WBG) Board of Executive Directors has endorsed the new Country [...] Full text...
09 july 2024 - 16:33:27
Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - The International Health Regulations (IHR) National Focal Point (NFP) of the Republic of South Africa [...] Full text...
09 july 2024 - 15:37:41
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - In Gaza, overwhelmed hospitals, soaring temperatures, hunger and a lack of even basic sanitation present an [...] Full text...
05 july 2024 - 07:22:53
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Bombing continued overnight into Thursday in Gaza where some of the tens of thousands of people [...] Full text...
02 july 2024 - 06:09:29
Luanda, Angola (PANA) - The authorities in Angola, supported by UN agencies, have initiated a vaccination campaign to curb the [...] Full text...
28 june 2024 - 07:02:41
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Nearly one-third of adults worldwide, approximately 1.8 billion people, did not meet the recommended levels of [...] Full text...
26 june 2024 - 14:22:15
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South African port health officials have developed an outbreak preparedness plan that outlines the [...] Full text...
24 june 2024 - 16:04:38
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Heavy fighting in Sudan hit a new low over the weekend when a maternity hospital in [...] Full text...
21 june 2024 - 17:32:03
Pretoria, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa’s Health department on Friday announced six more laboratory-confirmed cases of Mpox (previously known [...] Full text...
21 june 2024 - 07:34:03
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced a spike in cholera in several regions of [...] Full text...
20 june 2024 - 12:06:12
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Desperate shortages of essentials in Gaza have left the enclave’s most vulnerable individuals struggling to carry [...] Full text...
19 june 2024 - 15:17:19
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A UN probe into the Israeli military’s bombing of Gaza has pointed to the laws of [...] Full text...
19 june 2024 - 06:21:02
New York, US (PANA) - The State of Global Air (SoGA) report published in partnership with the UN Children’s Fund [...] Full text...
17 june 2024 - 14:02:42
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A comprehensive global study of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) – health-endangering chemicals that stay in the [...] Full text...
14 june 2024 - 07:29:55
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in collaboration with partners, is announcing support for human rabies vaccines for [...] Full text...
12 june 2024 - 19:26:35
Pretoria, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa’s Health Minister Dr. Joe Phaahla announced on Wednesday that his department intends to [...] Full text...
12 june 2024 - 18:16:17
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A high-level consultative workshop on Libya's national strategy for combating non-communicable diseases was held under the [...] Full text...
07 june 2024 - 07:30:13
New York, United States (PANA) - Amid early reports that an Israeli strike on a UN-run school in Gaza overnight [...] Full text...
07 june 2024 - 06:22:04
New York, United States (PANA) - Amid early reports that an Israeli strike on a UN-run school in Gaza overnight [...] Full text...
06 june 2024 - 18:40:47
Seoul, South Korea (PANA) - Kenya has formally joined the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) as a Member State, strengthening the [...] Full text...
06 june 2024 - 09:20:43
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday announced the appointment of Mr José Luis Castro as [...] Full text...
05 june 2024 - 19:12:46
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Pregnant women, newborns, children, adolescents and older people are facing serious health complications due to climate [...] Full text...
03 june 2024 - 06:12:02
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - In an historic development, the World Health Assembly, the annual meeting of its 194 member countries, [...] Full text...
31 may 2024 - 09:22:58
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Three United Nations agencies have issued a stark warning that all indications point to a significant [...] Full text...
29 may 2024 - 11:23:28
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Mr. Yankuba Darboe, Commissioner General, Gambia Revenue Authority (GRA), has been honoured with the prestigious World [...] Full text...
27 may 2024 - 11:24:06
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – The European Council has adopted new rules aimed at improving the safety and quality of blood, [...] Full text...
27 may 2024 - 06:57:37
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) launched its first-ever Investment Round on Sunday as part of a [...] Full text...
26 may 2024 - 05:42:30
New York, US (PANA) - The humanitarian situation for some 800,000 civilians in El Fasher, Sudan, and surrounding areas in [...] Full text...
25 may 2024 - 10:32:07
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - With two recommended vaccines and expanded supply, Gavi, UNICEF, WHO are working closely with governments and [...] Full text...
24 may 2024 - 15:54:56
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Data crunched by the UN World Health Organisation (WHO) has revealed that the COVID-19 emergency reversed more [...] Full text...
24 may 2024 - 05:29:42
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Living conditions in Gaza continue to deteriorate, with reports of an increase in diarrhoea and suspected [...] Full text...
23 may 2024 - 13:03:53
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - As the world continues to grapple with the aftermath of the most severe pandemic in a [...] Full text...
23 may 2024 - 06:24:54
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A comprehensive review by the UN health agency has revealed critical gaps in understanding the full [...] Full text...
17 may 2024 - 18:51:30
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) Friday released its updated Bacterial Priority Pathogens List (BPPL) 2024, featuring [...] Full text...
16 may 2024 - 06:40:30
New York, US (PANA) - The international community must give greater attention and resources to war-ravaged Sudan, where millions are [...] Full text...
15 may 2024 - 17:36:25
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – African countries, including Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya and Sao Tome and Principe [...] Full text...
15 may 2024 - 17:10:43
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – Kenya will begin the mass production of vaccines, mostly those required for routine immunization and would [...] Full text...
13 may 2024 - 13:11:00
Vienna, Austria (PANA) - Despite two decades of worldwide efforts, more than 4,000 precious wildlife species still fall prey to [...] Full text...
10 may 2024 - 11:09:14
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - With no let-up in the Israeli military operation in Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah into Friday [...] Full text...
10 may 2024 - 08:09:53
Mogadishu, Somalia (PANA) - In Somalia, the challenges to gender equality are complex and daunting. Only 28% of women over [...] Full text...
08 may 2024 - 12:27:27
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - “Unprecedented and devastating” flooding in east Africa has triggered widespread displacement with hundreds of thousands forced [...] Full text...
07 may 2024 - 05:27:08
Windhoek, Namibia (PANA) - Namibia has become the first country in Africa and the first high-burden country in the world [...] Full text...
04 may 2024 - 07:25:13
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - An Israeli military operation in Rafah “could lead to a slaughter” and cripple lifesaving humanitarian work [...] Full text...
03 may 2024 - 05:23:30
Niamey, Niger (PANA) - The UN World Health Organisation (WHO) started a mass vaccination campaign in Niger’s Niamey region on [...] Full text...
02 may 2024 - 13:16:18
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Almost seven months into the devastating war in the enclave, Gazans face a new threat: booby-trapped [...] Full text...
01 may 2024 - 07:09:58
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - A new World Bank report calls for urgent action to strengthen the resilience of Ghana’s health [...] Full text...
30 april 2024 - 17:02:12
New York, US (PANA) - With the situation in Gaza “worsening by the day”, UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday [...] Full text...
30 april 2024 - 07:38:18
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Cervical cancer – often resulting from an infection by the human papillomavirus (HPV) – [...] Full text...
29 april 2024 - 09:49:43
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Health experts from across Africa, policymakers, civil society organizations and partners who met last week [...] Full text...
29 april 2024 - 09:35:51
Monrovia, Liberia (PANA) — In a significant step forward for malaria prevention in Africa, three countries—Benin, Liberia and Sierra Leone—last week [...] Full text...
28 april 2024 - 05:33:08
Antananarivo, Madagascar (PANA) - Madagascar, is one of the countries most affected by malaria. According to the Ministry of Public Health, [...] Full text...
26 april 2024 - 11:11:27
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Antibiotics saw “extensive overuse” globally among hospitalized COVID-19 patients during the pandemic without improving clinical outcomes, [...] Full text...
26 april 2024 - 04:37:52
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Unexpected blistering temperatures across Gaza have added to the daily misery faced by the enclave’s people [...] Full text...
25 april 2024 - 06:38:45
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Two UN agencies alongside the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the global vaccine alliance Gavi [...] Full text...
24 april 2024 - 05:03:08
New York, US (PANA) - The head of the UN agency that assists Palestine refugees, UNRWA, on Tuesday reiterated that [...] Full text...
23 april 2024 - 13:34:05
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Disturbing reports continue to emerge about mass graves in Gaza in which Palestinian victims were reportedly stripped [...] Full text...
22 april 2024 - 17:34:34
New York, US (PANA) - UN chief António Guterres issued an appeal on Monday to “actively support” the UN agency [...] Full text...
19 april 2024 - 05:14:16
New York, US (PANA) - Recent escalations in the Middle East make it even more important to support efforts towards [...] Full text...
16 april 2024 - 16:00:54
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Nearly 10,000 women have been killed in Gaza since war erupted six months ago and one [...] Full text...
15 april 2024 - 11:57:28
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A full year of conflict in Sudan has already caused immense suffering and death but the [...] Full text...
12 april 2024 - 22:01:15
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Nigeria has become the first country to roll out a “revolutionary” five-in-one vaccine against meningitis, the [...] Full text...
11 april 2024 - 15:42:27
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) -The United States has notified the World Health Organization (WHO) of a laboratory-confirmed case of human infection [...] Full text...
09 april 2024 - 14:07:54
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Liya earned a total of 23.8 billion dinars (around 5.96 billion US dollars) in revenue in [...] Full text...
09 april 2024 - 13:14:29
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The number of lives lost due to viral hepatitis infections is increasing and already accounts for [...] Full text...
06 april 2024 - 07:12:38
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A massive cholera-busting initiative partnered by the UN is underway, with more than 1.2 million rapid [...] Full text...