14 june 2024 - 12:47:58
Maseru, Lesotho (PANA) - Blood transfusion plays a critical role in the provision of lifesaving health care. Vulnerable people, such [...] Full text...
28 may 2024 - 18:41:08
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) – The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday launched an investment case that lays out the Organisation’s [...] 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...
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...
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...
09 may 2024 - 11:57:32
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - Health charity, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), says it has been forced to suspend work and [...] 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...
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...
29 april 2024 - 09:27:26
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – A pioneering health investment charter, a first for the African region, is set to be launched at [...] 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...
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...
17 april 2024 - 05:12:50
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Ethiopia’s international partners convened in Geneva on Tuesday to address the urgent need for increased humanitarian [...] 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...
13 march 2024 - 05:40:38
New York, US (PANA) - The fight against child mortality has reached an historic milestone, the UN announced on Wednesday, [...] Full text...
08 march 2024 - 12:13:58
Yaoundé, Cameroon (PANA) — Ministers of Health from African countries with the highest burden of malaria have committed to accelerated action [...] Full text...
01 march 2024 - 19:40:58
Maputo, Mozambique (PANA) - A new programme will improve healthcare and nutrition services for about 4.6 million people, especially women, [...] Full text...
29 february 2024 - 19:35:28
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Leaders attending a major UN environmental conference in Nairobi must drive forward solutions to combat climate [...] Full text...
14 february 2024 - 05:47:54
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Civilians continue to bear the brunt as the war between rival militaries in Sudan spreads into [...] Full text...
13 february 2024 - 09:11:18
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Nearly 10,000 children in Burkina Faso and Cameroon have now received the RTS,S malaria vaccine since [...] Full text...
09 february 2024 - 08:06:34
Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - Last month, Cameroon became the first country to start rolling out malaria vaccination as part of [...] Full text...
24 january 2024 - 20:05:19
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Researchers at The Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and [...] Full text...
22 january 2024 - 16:55:38
Praia, Cabo Verde (PANA) - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has reiterated his country's commitment to deepening, strengthening, and [...] Full text...
17 january 2024 - 12:47:02
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The Beninese government has received 215,590 doses of malaria vaccine, the Ministry of Health announced on [...] Full text...
12 january 2024 - 12:01:59
Praia, Cabo Verde (PANA) – The World Health Organisation (WHO) has certified Cabo Verde as a malaria-free country, marking a significant achievement [...] Full text...
05 january 2024 - 08:45:13
Washington, DC, USA (PANA) - With record-shattering high temperatures, explosive wildfires, intense drought, massive flooding, and destructive storms — no [...] Full text...
27 december 2023 - 06:55:45
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The past year saw significant milestones and challenges in global public health but also immense and [...] Full text...
23 december 2023 - 13:46:14
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - More than 700 cases of dengue fever, including around 30 deaths, have been recorded in Mali [...] Full text...
22 december 2023 - 05:41:00
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A second malaria vaccine has been recommended for use by the World Health Organisation (WHO), which [...] Full text...
13 december 2023 - 20:40:04
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Professor Halidou Tinto is the winner of Nature'10, which rewards the ten scientists who made [...] Full text...
04 december 2023 - 12:56:10
Dubai, UAE (PANA) - Leaders from around the world have declared their commitment to provide clean cooking energy by 2032 [...] Full text...
04 december 2023 - 07:23:56
Dubai, UAE (PANA) - Health has made it onto the agenda of a UN climate conference, and health advocates at [...] Full text...
03 december 2023 - 11:32:24
Dubai, UAE (PANA) - The World Bank announced on Sunday at COP28 a new Climate and Health Programme to urgently [...] Full text...
01 december 2023 - 07:28:59
Dubai, UAE (PANA) - Climate change and its impacts, particularly extreme weather and heatwaves, pose a “substantial risk” to progress [...] Full text...
22 november 2023 - 21:15:11
Yaounde, Cameroon (PANA) - The arrival in Cameroon of the world’s first malaria vaccine recommended by UN health agency WHO has [...] Full text...
22 november 2023 - 16:05:37
Washington DC, United States (PANA) - The World Bank and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (the [...] Full text...
21 november 2023 - 15:48:36
Geneva/New York (PANA) -- Pregnant women, babies and children face extreme health risks from climate catastrophes that warrant urgent attention, [...] Full text...
17 november 2023 - 17:53:44
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA - Kenya remains vulnerable to frequent climatic shocks that pose significant economic risk.
Without adaptation measures, the impact [...] Full text...
31 october 2023 - 16:18:48
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - In war-torn Sudan, cholera, measles, dengue and malaria are circulating in several states and a combination [...] Full text...
30 october 2023 - 19:51:12
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudanese environmentalists and poeliticians have warned that every possible ingredient for environmental catastrophe is now fermenting [...] Full text...
18 october 2023 - 19:14:14
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - In war-torn Sudan, food insecurity and disruptions to essential services could cost the lives of more [...] Full text...
02 october 2023 - 18:26:35
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended a second vaccine, R21/Matrix-M, for the prevention of malaria [...] Full text...
29 september 2023 - 20:20:54
Cairo, Egypt (PANA)– Sudan has declared a cholera outbreak in Gedaref State, where 264 suspected cholera cases, 4 confirmed cases [...] Full text...
29 september 2023 - 10:00:47
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - While warplanes and mortars are hitting Khartoum inhabitants with fire from above, environmental degradation, brought by [...] Full text...
20 september 2023 - 06:17:01
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - In war-torn Sudan, more than 1,200 children under-five have died in camps in the space of [...] Full text...
14 september 2023 - 16:42:50
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Insufficient progress towards climate goals is slowing down the global fight against poverty, hunger and deadly [...] Full text...
23 august 2023 - 05:40:29
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is grappling with a dire humanitarian crisis fuelled by [...] Full text...
22 august 2023 - 15:41:03
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - More people in some of the world’s poorest communities will have access to quality health products [...] Full text...
19 august 2023 - 05:10:20
New York, US (PANA) - The UN and partners are responding to disease outbreaks and an ongoing food insecurity crisis [...] Full text...
18 august 2023 - 06:43:07
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The first global Traditional Medicine Summit convened by UN World Health Organisation (WHO) got underway on Thursday [...] Full text...
15 august 2023 - 18:44:25
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - After four months of war in Sudan, UN humanitarians on Tuesday called for action to be [...] Full text...
08 august 2023 - 20:22:16
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, issued a warning on Tuesday that health conditions are rapidly deteriorating [...] Full text...
28 july 2023 - 06:03:22
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The conflict in Sudan has sparked a health crisis for the 3.4 million people forced to flee to [...] Full text...
25 july 2023 - 06:28:00
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - After 100 days of fighting in Sudan, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported on Monday that at [...] Full text...
06 july 2023 - 06:17:54
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Twelve African countries will receive 18 million doses of the first-ever vaccine against malaria over the [...] Full text...
30 june 2023 - 20:34:01
Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - Increased violence, natural disasters and disease outbreaks have fuelled a deteriorating health situation in the eastern [...] Full text...
27 june 2023 - 06:05:21
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Climate, armed conflict, high food prices and post-COVID-19 economic fall-out have caused record food insecurity [...] Full text...
21 june 2023 - 08:47:46
Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - At least 216 million African children suffer from stunting and malnutrition in sub-Saharan Africa, where [...] Full text...
08 june 2023 - 15:57:51
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the [...] Full text...
30 may 2023 - 16:01:08
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - For the first time since fighting broke out in Sudan on 15 April, humanitarians have been [...] Full text...
27 may 2023 - 14:14:52
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - In the summer of 2022, 70 Gambian babies and young children died from kidney failure after [...] Full text...
23 may 2023 - 05:53:56
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - Children in the Horn of Africa are living through an unprecedented large-scale crisis of hunger, displacement, [...] Full text...
19 may 2023 - 16:12:06
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Several villages in the rural communities of Bafoulabé, Sidibéla and Mahina in the Kayes region of [...] Full text...
03 may 2023 - 05:24:00
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Health systems in most countries have started showing the first major signs of recovery three years [...] Full text...
02 may 2023 - 05:42:00
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Over 2,000 delegates from around the world gathered at the UN in Geneva on Monday to [...] Full text...
25 april 2023 - 20:45:45
New York, US (PANA) - The United Nations will continue to deliver desperately needed relief for the Sudanese people, amid [...] Full text...
25 april 2023 - 18:28:29
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - To mark World Malaria Day, U.S. President Joseph Biden announced that the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) will [...] Full text...
25 april 2023 - 16:31:38
Geneva, Switzerland PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) Tuesday launched its Health Inequality Data Repository, the most comprehensive global [...] Full text...
18 april 2023 - 08:38:40
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) has appointed five new senior figures to its headquarters leadership team [...] Full text...
03 april 2023 - 15:39:39
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The Burundi office of the United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), on behalf of 72 [...] Full text...
30 march 2023 - 05:16:10
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The head of the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday that the agency was [...] Full text...
24 march 2023 - 05:17:54
Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - Southern African countries hit hard by tropical Cyclone Freddy are reeling from disease outbreaks, with health services [...] Full text...
23 march 2023 - 16:40:58
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday announced the appointment of Dr. Daniel Ngamije Madandi [...] Full text...
10 march 2023 - 15:31:49
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Life-threatening hunger caused by climate shocks, violent insecurity and disease in the Horn of Africa, have [...] Full text...
06 march 2023 - 13:50:25
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – Kenya is starting the immediate provision of a groundbreaking malaria vaccine to children especially those living [...] Full text...
24 february 2023 - 23:55:39
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Financial services including banking, telecommunication and energy supply services have gradually resumed in Ethiopia's northern [...] Full text...
23 february 2023 - 16:29:55
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Every two minutes a woman dies during pregnancy or childbirth, according to the latest estimates released [...] Full text...
03 february 2023 - 05:19:51
New York, US (PANA) - UN humanitarians on Thursday reported that aid access in the north is continuing to improve with [...] Full text...
02 february 2023 - 05:43:02
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Trafficked medical products kill almost half a million sub-Saharan Africans every year, and action is needed [...] Full text...
06 january 2023 - 12:04:46
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - An estimated 5 million children died before their fifth birthday and another 2.1 million children and [...] Full text...
05 january 2023 - 14:20:16
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - An estimated 5 million children died before their fifth birthday and another 2.1 million children and [...] Full text...
27 december 2022 - 06:03:09
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - In 2022 the UN warned that the COVID-19 pandemic is still a cause for global concern, [...] Full text...
20 december 2022 - 13:16:22
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Project grants for Benin will increase by 8.6 percent in 2023, the Economy and Finance Ministry [...] Full text...
08 december 2022 - 12:20:55
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Countries around the world largely held the line against further setbacks to malaria prevention, testing and [...] Full text...
17 november 2022 - 19:11:23
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - An emergency situation has been declared in Chad because of floods, which have affected 18 [...] Full text...
17 november 2022 - 17:56:39
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - WHO is launching Thursday a new strategy to respond to the urgent problem of antimalarial drug [...] Full text...
11 november 2022 - 12:02:12
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – Sudan's Ministry of Health says its efforts are helping to control the spread of dengue fever [...] Full text...
08 november 2022 - 16:20:25
Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt (PANA) - Overwhelming flooding has affected at least 27.7 million children across 27 countries worldwide, with the number [...] Full text...
28 october 2022 - 18:53:27
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The UN World Health Organisation (WHO) expressed serious concerns on Friday about a likely spike [...] Full text...
05 october 2022 - 19:23:51
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN health agency is working diligently in Uganda to support the government in responding to [...] Full text...
22 september 2022 - 20:11:08
New York, US (PANA) - President William Ruto has called for urgent reform of the global decision-making system that will [...] Full text...
22 september 2022 - 06:30:24
New York, US (PANA) - Referring to a world in a state of turbulence, President Paul Kagame of Rwanda on [...] Full text...
27 august 2022 - 18:15:12
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced on Saturday that the public and private sectors in his [...] Full text...
18 august 2022 - 05:26:43
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday highlighted the need to support millions [...] Full text...
17 august 2022 - 20:12:18
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - UNICEF will soon acquire 18 million doses of the world's first malaria vaccine, the UN agency [...] Full text...
17 august 2022 - 05:13:31
New York, US (PANA) - The pharmaceutical company, GSK, has been awarded a contract to produce the world’s first malaria [...] Full text...
16 august 2022 - 16:51:20
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - UNICEF has awarded a contract for the first ever supply of malaria vaccine to GSK valued [...] Full text...
04 august 2022 - 17:39:43
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA)- The Burkinabe Ministry of Health will on 30 August launch the distribution of more than 16 [...] Full text...
04 august 2022 - 17:32:37
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Healthy life expectancy among Africans living in mainly high and upper middle-income countries on the continent, [...] Full text...
02 august 2022 - 19:26:56
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Tuesday that the Greater Horn of Africa is experiencing [...] Full text...
22 july 2022 - 05:30:17
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – The World Health Organization (WHO) has welcomed the launch by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, of the landmark [...] Full text...
03 june 2022 - 05:21:05
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - COVID-19 deaths in Africa are forecast to decrease by 94 per cent this year compared to [...] Full text...
27 may 2022 - 13:14:21
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) -UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, says it is deeply concerned about the urgent and large-scale needs of [...] Full text...
24 may 2022 - 16:42:50
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - World Health Organization (WHO) Member States on Tuesday re-elected Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to serve a [...] Full text...
20 may 2022 - 18:20:52
-Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) has indicated in its latest comprehensive set of World Health Statistics to [...] Full text...
02 may 2022 - 05:27:37
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The war in Ukraine is aggravating a “triple food, energy and financial crisis,” across Africa, according [...] Full text...
25 april 2022 - 10:55:29
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - As World Malaria Day is marked on Monday, the UN World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced [...] Full text...
25 april 2022 - 06:03:49
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the past year has seen “significant breakthroughs in malaria prevention and control”, [...] Full text...
08 april 2022 - 11:53:58
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – Climate-related health emergencies are on the rise in Africa, accounting for more than half of public health [...] Full text...
27 march 2022 - 21:56:55
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana's President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Sunday announced the reopening of the country's land and [...] Full text...
18 march 2022 - 16:19:09
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The first injection to offer long-lasting protection against HIV is being rolled out in South Africa [...] Full text...
14 march 2022 - 05:12:03
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The United States (US) and African Union Commission (AUC) have reaffirmed their strong commitment to [...] Full text...
20 february 2022 - 11:54:37
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - The UN World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced that six African countries will be the first [...] Full text...
18 february 2022 - 19:59:50
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Increasing levels of military hostilities in Tigray region, which include an airstrike reported on Atsbi [...] Full text...
15 february 2022 - 18:58:49
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) has produced two test kits for malaria and the coronavirus.
These [...] Full text...
06 february 2022 - 16:05:02
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta on Sunday urged African leaders to maximise their efforts to eliminate [...] Full text...
05 february 2022 - 18:39:52
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said here Saturday that insecurity had led to [...] Full text...
04 february 2022 - 11:22:44
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The Sahel region, already plagued by political instability, widespread violence, food shortages and disproportionately impacted by [...] Full text...
18 january 2022 - 14:37:07
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Since 2021, Burundi has been hit by a resurgence of diseases with epidemic potential, mainly due [...] Full text...
13 january 2022 - 05:35:26
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - With the crisis escalating in Sudan, there have been 15 reports of attacks on healthcare workers and health [...] Full text...
23 december 2021 - 07:22:28
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Blanket COVID-19 vaccine booster programmes could prolong the pandemic and increase inequity, the Director-General of the [...] Full text...
21 december 2021 - 07:22:14
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - There is now “consistent evidence” that the Omicron variant is outpacing Delta, as COVID-19 continues to [...] Full text...
20 december 2021 - 07:54:16
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian Health authorities said here Monday they had recorded 58 coronavirus (COVID-19) cases, bringing the number [...] Full text...
13 december 2021 - 05:50:25
New York, US (PANA) - The COVID-19 pandemic is likely to halt two decades of global progress towards Universal Health [...] Full text...
10 december 2021 - 00:17:07
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The situation in northern Ethiopia continues to be highly fluid and unpredictable, with ongoing fighting [...] Full text...
07 december 2021 - 05:28:17
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Disruptions due to the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in considerable increases in malaria cases and deaths between [...] Full text...
04 december 2021 - 12:58:06
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A campaign against malaria began here Saturday in several cities of southern Libya after the appearance [...] Full text...
18 october 2021 - 21:02:10
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) Monday appointed football legend Didier Drogba its Goodwill Ambassador for Sport [...] Full text...
12 october 2021 - 06:52:56
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - People with weaker immune systems should receive an additional shot of approved COVID-19 vaccines, an advisory [...] Full text...
10 october 2021 - 16:55:01
Nairobi. Kenya(PANA) - The World Health Organization’s recommendation of broad deployment of the first malaria vaccine among children in Sub-Saharan Africa [...] Full text...
09 october 2021 - 14:22:15
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The US has congratulated Uganda on its 59th independence anniversary which falls on Saturday saying [...] Full text...
09 october 2021 - 09:23:01
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - Conflict in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and a lack of funding, are leaving humanitarians with a [...] Full text...
06 october 2021 - 20:30:35
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) is recommending widespread use of the world’s first malaria vaccine, in what the UN [...] Full text...
11 september 2021 - 05:22:07
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Suicide prevention must be prioritised after 18 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Americas office of [...] Full text...
02 september 2021 - 13:03:35
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - More than 2.1 million people in the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASAL) of Kenya are severely [...] Full text...
30 august 2021 - 11:41:52
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Gambian health minister Dr Amadou Lamin Samateh on Sunday launched indoor spraying in Banjul to eradicate [...] Full text...
20 august 2021 - 21:13:43
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - A United States delegation Friday joined their Nigerian counterparts in an advocacy visit to Benue State, [...] Full text...
11 august 2021 - 18:37:00
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Three new candidate drugs are being tested in the latest phase of global Solidarity clinical trials [...] Full text...
09 august 2021 - 22:47:03
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Orgaization (WHO) said here Monday Guinea's ministry of Health had reported a confirmed [...] Full text...
09 august 2021 - 13:40:03
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Ethiopian refugees in camps in South-East Sudan are facing dire living conditions as fighting continues in [...] Full text...
08 august 2021 - 12:57:48
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The uncertainty that hangs over the scene in Libya, fuelled by differences between the Libyan parties, [...] Full text...
05 august 2021 - 20:28:22
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan prosecutor general, Seddik Al-Sour, on Thursday ordered the arrest of the president of the [...] Full text...
30 july 2021 - 22:32:10
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Humanitarian organisations have faced serious challenges in delivering aid to the troubled Northern region of [...] Full text...
14 july 2021 - 05:35:05
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - UN humanitarians appealed on Tuesday for far quicker access to Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region, after [...] Full text...
13 july 2021 - 16:37:26
Mekelle, Ethiopia (PANA) - UN humanitarians appealed on Tuesday for far quicker access to Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region, after the [...] Full text...
23 june 2021 - 05:28:18
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - With school closures triggered by COVID-19 disrupting both education and access to nutritious meals, two UN [...] Full text...
22 june 2021 - 10:59:44
Benin City, Nigeria (PANA) – The African Union has voiced support for efforts to establish a continent-wide vaccine research and [...] Full text...
21 june 2021 - 13:39:49
Benin City, Nigeria (PANA) – The African population is at risk of a more lethal strain of the coronavirus disease [...] Full text...
19 june 2021 - 14:04:51
Cotonou Benin (PANA) - Benin's Minister of Health, Professor Benjamin Hounkpatin, has appealed to his compatriots to donate blood at [...] Full text...
19 june 2021 - 08:45:19
Maputo, Mozambique (PANA) – Although the ongoing harvest is expected to improve food security in parts of Mozambique, the conflict [...] Full text...
18 june 2021 - 06:55:35
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - New research published by the UN health agency on Thursday revealed that suicide remains one of [...] Full text...
02 june 2021 - 17:50:22
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The coronavirus pandemic presents an opportunity for Africa to reinvent its economic growth plan, a governance think-tank, [...] Full text...
27 may 2021 - 13:13:01
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - With COVID-19 vaccine supplies to Africa slowing down, the continent is working to boost its [...] Full text...
19 may 2021 - 21:00:31
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued guidelines to inform future research and development on genetically modified [...] Full text...
18 may 2021 - 07:48:56
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - African Health Ministers have called upon all AU Member States to intensify their efforts for [...] Full text...
04 may 2021 - 14:27:45
Juba, South Sudan (PANA) - The International Organization for Migration (IOM) warns that more than 800,000 people in South Sudan [...] Full text...
26 april 2021 - 10:38:10
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Malaria claimed the lives of 1,708 people in 2020 in Mali, the Director of the National [...] Full text...
25 april 2021 - 04:47:12
New York, US (PANA) - Despite the COVID-19 pandemic and the multiple crises it has sparked, a growing number of [...] Full text...
24 april 2021 - 18:39:09
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Researchers from the University of Oxford and scientists from the Institute for Research in Health [...] Full text...
23 april 2021 - 21:52:32
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The second round of a World Health Organization “pulse survey“ reveals that over one year into the [...] Full text...
14 april 2021 - 14:14:36
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has signed an agreement with [...] Full text...
12 april 2021 - 17:21:39
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Malaria killed 3,966 people in Burkina Faso in 2020, Burkinabe Minister of Health, Charlemagne Ouédraogo, [...] Full text...
01 april 2021 - 13:01:44
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) has donated US$1.2 million to support the humanitarian action [...] Full text...
23 march 2021 - 19:53:49
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG), a global producer of liquefied natural gas, on Tuesday signed a five-year Memorandum of Understanding [...] Full text...
18 march 2021 - 15:27:46
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – The African Union Commission (AUC) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) have [...] Full text...
06 march 2021 - 14:02:13
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The Global Fund has released US$118 million to help Burundi in the fight against HIV, tuberculosis [...] Full text...
17 february 2021 - 16:48:41
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Seventy percent of Kenyans are still at a high risk of contracting, according to a newly-formed anti-malaria [...] Full text...
06 february 2021 - 22:12:23
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, has urged the African Union Summit to back a global education financing [...] Full text...
29 january 2021 - 14:00:25
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA)- As insecurity in the Central African Republic (CAR) has uprooted, in less than two months, more [...] Full text...
23 december 2020 - 18:46:38
Antananarivo, Madagascar (PANA) - Following three consecutive years of drought, the Grand Sud of Madagascar is facing a severe food [...] Full text...
16 december 2020 - 05:24:11
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - An international coalition aiming to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic needs $28 billion, a bargain price for [...] Full text...
15 december 2020 - 22:35:09
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - The Luozi pharmaceutical research center (CRPL), Tuesday announced the approval of the “MANACOVID” drug to [...] Full text...
05 december 2020 - 08:09:20
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN’s humanitarian coordination office, said on Friday that it was doing its utmost to secure [...] Full text...
30 november 2020 - 06:58:54
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Gaps in life-saving interventions are undermining efforts to curb malaria, amid fears that the coronavirus pandemic [...] Full text...
21 november 2020 - 07:59:59
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - More cases of COVID-19 have been reported in the past four weeks than in the first [...] Full text...
19 november 2020 - 15:58:04
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has called on the international community to act in unison with rededicated [...] Full text...
09 november 2020 - 20:52:38
Banjul, Gambia(PANA) - Officials of the ministry of Health, in partnership of with the Banjul City Council, Monday declared an [...] Full text...
07 november 2020 - 18:37:32
Niamey, Niger (PANA) - Between January 1 and November 3, 2020, 3,193,598 cases of malaria were recorded in Niger, causing [...] Full text...
14 october 2020 - 12:55:33
Washington, US (PANA) - The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors has approved an envelope of $12 billion for developing [...] Full text...
08 october 2020 - 16:08:44
New York, US (PANA) - A stillborn baby is delivered every 16 seconds, which translates into nearly two million infants [...] Full text...
07 october 2020 - 07:09:56
New York, US (PANA) - Thousands of children continue to suffer grievously as unrelenting violence persists across eastern Democratic Republic [...] Full text...
25 september 2020 - 12:38:37
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is stepping up efforts to help uprooted families [...] Full text...
25 september 2020 - 05:22:46
Niamey, Niger (PANA) - Humanitarians have stepped up assistance to communities “on the brink”, who have been affected by devastating [...] Full text...
15 september 2020 - 20:14:11
Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) – The coronavirus pandemic has affected economic development and stalled poverty reduction efforts by 20 years, [...] Full text...
11 september 2020 - 14:36:49
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and [...] Full text...
09 september 2020 - 16:35:54
New York, US (PANA) - The number of global under-five deaths dropped to its lowest point on record in 2019 [...] Full text...
08 september 2020 - 17:54:28
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Carrefour de la Paix-Pont Woyowayanko-Point Y road widening project, carried out between 2010 and 2013 [...] Full text...
01 september 2020 - 04:12:54
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday that the coronavirus (COVID-19) caused disruptions to the [...] Full text...
26 august 2020 - 22:11:13
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A humanitarian organization Wednesday raised the alarm on a spike in respiratory infections in Somalia due [...] Full text...
15 august 2020 - 05:11:54
Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - Millions of lives could be lost to hunger in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), [...] Full text...
25 july 2020 - 16:44:45
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwandan newspapers this week gave wide coverage to the country's response to COVID-19 and the new [...] Full text...
21 july 2020 - 23:38:49
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The week dedicated to mother and child health, coupled with the African Vaccination Week (AVW) was [...] Full text...
19 july 2020 - 09:46:15
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 653 new COVID-19 cases in the country [...] Full text...
17 july 2020 - 05:46:48
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting recession are set to trigger the first increase in global poverty [...] Full text...
15 july 2020 - 07:13:34
Maiduguri, Nigeria (PANA) - Borno state government, in collaboration with Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Health and the World Health Organisation [...] Full text...
10 july 2020 - 12:39:22
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – As Nigeria recorded 30,748 confirmed cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19) with 499 new infections on Thursday, the [...] Full text...
25 june 2020 - 20:03:09
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – The World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Gebreyesus, has decried the lack of proper [...] Full text...