Measles cases surge worldwide, infecting 10.3 million people in 2023

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...

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Cases of measles surge by 20 per cent in 2023

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...

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Invest more in vaccines to reduce deaths from drug-resistant superbugs: WHO

11 october 2024 - 06:17:27
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - More investment in vaccines could prevent deaths due to antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and reduce antibiotic use [...] Full text...

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WHO updates influenza care guidelines, includes recommendations for viruses with pandemic potential

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...

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South Africa confirms six more Mpox cases as first batch of treatment arrives

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...

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Deadly and growing impact of air pollution laid bare in new UNICEF-backed report

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...

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José Luis Castro appointed as WHO Director-General Special Envoy for Chronic Respiratory Diseases

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...

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Experts warn of serious health impacts from climate change for pregnant women, children, and older people

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...

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‘Historic milestone’ as child mortality hits record low of 4.9 million in 2022

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...

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Lethal combination of hunger and disease to lead to more deaths in Gaza

05 january 2024 - 18:30:42
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Hunger is ravaging Gaza, and this is expected to increase illness across the Strip, most acutely [...] Full text...

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Israel-Gaza war: Crisis deepens as UN aid convoys face delays, obstacles

04 january 2024 - 16:53:49
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Amid reports of continued Israeli airstrikes overnight in southern and central Gaza and more rocket fire [...] Full text...

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Health services predict a rise in cases of coronavirus infections in Libya over coming period

26 december 2023 - 18:36:12
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The National Centre for Disease Control said on Tuesday that it expected an increase in cases [...] Full text...

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COVID-19: WHO designates JN.1 ‘variant of interest’ amid sharp rise in global spread

21 december 2023 - 06:46:19
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN World Health Organisation (WHO) has said it is continuously monitoring the global spread of [...] Full text...

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WHO requests 'detailed information' from China on spike in respiratory illnesses in children

24 november 2023 - 06:47:35
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN World Health Organisation (WHO) has made an official request to China for detailed information on a [...] Full text...

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Children’s rights in jeopardy 34 years after landmark UN treaty

21 november 2023 - 08:01:08
New York, US (PANA) - Stronger action is needed to uphold children’s rights in a world where they are increasingly [...] Full text...

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Child deaths from wasting are predictable and preventable: WHO chief

21 november 2023 - 05:36:40
London, UK, (PANA) - Worldwide, 45 million children under-five are wasted, meaning they are dangerously thin for their height, and roughly one [...] Full text...

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Israel-Gaza crisis: War and health crisis in Gaza a ‘recipe for epidemics’ warns WHO

21 november 2023 - 05:27:16
New York, US (PANA) - The thousands of injuries sustained by civilians across Gaza combined with a burgeoning public health [...] Full text...

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South African surgeon implants world's smallest pacemaker

04 october 2023 - 09:24:40
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – A South African cardiologist has successfully implanted the world’s smallest pacemaker into a patient [...] Full text...

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Trafficking in the Sahel: Killer cough syrup and fake medicine (By UN News)

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...

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Mauritius launches anti-influenza vaccination exercise 2023

05 april 2023 - 11:57:09
Roses-Hill, Mauritius (PANA) - The Minister of Social Integration, Social Security and National Solidarity, Mrs Fazila Jeewa-Daureeawoo Wednesday launched an [...] Full text...

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Fake medicines kill almost 500,000 sub-Saharan Africans a year: Report

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...

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A child or youth died once every 4.4 seconds in 2021 – UN report (EMBARGOED until 00.01 GMT 10 January 2023 )

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...

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A child or youth died once every 4.4 seconds in 2021 – UN report (EMBARGOED until 00.01 GMT 10 January 2023 )

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...

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Mauritius to introduce high-quality surveillance to prevent outbreak of measles

01 november 2022 - 08:36:13
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritius will combine high-quality surveillance and public health promotion with a strong childhood immunisation programme to [...] Full text...

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WHO warns of disease threat amid Horn of Africa drought

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...

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COVID-19 fuels slowest rate of childhood vaccination in three decades, leaving millions at risk

15 july 2022 - 19:47:46
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Official data published by UN agencies on Friday shows the largest sustained decline in childhood vaccination rates [...] Full text...

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Mystery child hepatitis outbreak passes 1,000 recorded cases, says WHO

13 july 2022 - 20:30:43
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - In addition to tackling COVID and the monkeypox outbreak, the UN health agency has been keeping [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: WHO chief reiterates that pandemic 'nowhere near over' as virus spreads ‘freely’

13 july 2022 - 05:18:05
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Rising COVID-19 cases are not only putting further pressure on already stretched health systems and workers [...] Full text...

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Pandemic has hampered progress to achieve universal energy access by 2030, says UN report

02 june 2022 - 06:12:56
New York, US (PANA) - The COVID-19 pandemic has slowed progress towards universal access to electricity and clean cooking fuels [...] Full text...

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Almost everyone now breathing polluted air, warns WHO

05 april 2022 - 07:47:16
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - An astonishing 99 per cent of the world’s population breathes polluted air that exceeds internationally approved [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: 70 per cent vaccination target must be met to ward off Omicron, says WHO

05 january 2022 - 06:00:35
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - As the Omicron variant of COVID-19 continues to surge across the world, the UN health agency [...] Full text...

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Former Malian Health Minister elected to the US National Academy of Medicine

23 october 2021 - 19:36:22
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - A former Malian Minister of Health and current Director General of the National Institute of Public [...] Full text...

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WHO launches global road map to defeat meningitis by 2030

27 september 2021 - 13:55:11
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) – The World Health Organization (WHO) will on Tuesday launch Defeating Meningitis by 2030: A Global Road [...] Full text...

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South African grandmother who travelled across Africa alone dies peacefully

04 august 2021 - 14:59:35
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – A Cape Town grandmother who made history by driving across Africa alone four years [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: New data indicate vaccine inequity undermining global economic recovery

22 july 2021 - 15:43:12
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - COVID-19 vaccine inequity will have a lasting and profound impact on socio-economic recovery in low- and [...] Full text...

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Zambia’s founding father Kaunda laid to rest, Govt. declares 28 April public holiday in his honour

07 july 2021 - 13:30:15
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – Zambia’s founding father Kenneth David Kaunda who died on 17 June 2021, at 97, was laid [...] Full text...

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African Union backs local production of vaccines in Africa (By Kennedy Abwao, PANA correspondent)

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...

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Coronavirus: Top COVID probe urges bold overhaul of pandemic prevention measures

12 may 2021 - 15:52:48
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A prestigious World Health Organization (WHO) appointed panel on Wednesday urged bold action to end the COVID-19 [...] Full text...

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Alert over shortage of new drugs for ‘world’s most dangerous bacteria’

15 april 2021 - 15:53:32
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A lack of new treatments for common infections has left people dangerously exposed to the “world’s most dangerous bacteria”, the UN health agency said on Thursday.  The alert from [...] Full text...

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AfDB chief, three others win Academy of Public Health 2020 Distinguished Fellowship Award

14 december 2020 - 13:35:21
Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire (PANA) - The Academy of Public Health, the flagship body of the West African Institute of Public [...] Full text...

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‘Bring life to those fighting for breath,’ UNICEF urges on World Pneumonia Day

12 november 2020 - 20:34:37
New York, US (PANA) - Pneumonia is not a new emergency, it takes the lives of some 800,000 children each [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: Pandemic could reverse decades of progress toward eliminating preventable child deaths, UN agencies warn

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...

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Coronavirus: WHO Chief outlines key logistical hurdles to pandemic, urges unified front

19 august 2020 - 00:03:07
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - World Health Organisation (WHO) chief Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Tuesday outlined key logistical hurdles in fight [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: Rwanda's cases rise by 12 to 2,152

11 august 2020 - 00:29:59
  Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwanda's coronavirus (COVID-19) cases rose by 12 within one day to 2,152, the ministry of [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: Gambia registers third death of Convid19

07 july 2020 - 14:03:44
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The Gambia has registered it third and documented death of Covid-19 following the death of a [...] Full text...

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Youth activist speaks up for environmental protection at Human Rights Council

02 july 2020 - 06:09:27
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Environmental harm severely affects “the youngest children, indigenous children and those from low-income and marginalized communities,” [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: Pandemic ‘not even close to being over’, WHO chief warns

29 june 2020 - 19:45:30
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Nearly six months after the new coronavirus first emerged, the COVID-19 pandemic is “not even close [...] Full text...

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Senior UN official warns South Sudan peace process 'faltering'

24 june 2020 - 05:09:21
New York, US (PANA) - A senior UN official has warned that the peace process in South Sudan is “faltering” [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: Experts underscore COVID-19 threat to global progress on child immunization

23 may 2020 - 06:45:07
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Global experts in health and child welfare have again highlighted how the COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: World health experts to meet on Thursday to assess pandemic

30 april 2020 - 04:50:23
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - International health experts will convene on Thursday to evaluate the evolution of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: WHO says African regulatory agencies, ethics committees to expedite clinical trial reviews

21 april 2020 - 11:31:53
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - National regulatory authorities and national ethics committees from across Africa have agreed to combine their expertise to [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: Big pharmaceutical firms give details of vaccine dev't process

20 april 2020 - 13:28:50
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - An agreement between major pharmaceutical companies, Sanofi and the GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) to produce a vaccine for [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: Now is ‘not the time’ to reduce funding for WHO, urges Guterres

15 april 2020 - 05:48:36
New York, US (PANA) - Now is a time for unity in the global battle to push the COVID-19 (coronavirus) [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: UN health agency chief says no need to politicise pandemic

09 april 2020 - 05:25:45
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The COVID-19 (coronaviru) pandemic should not be politicised as unity is the “only option” to defeat [...] Full text...

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Nigerien MPs get briefing on the Coronavirus pandemic

08 april 2020 - 16:03:44
Niamey, Niger (PANA) - Nigerien Members of Parliament on Wednesday attended an information day on coronavirus, in the presence of [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: Zimbabwe records its second COVID-19 death

07 april 2020 - 21:08:14
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Zimbabwe's Health and Child Care Ministry Tuesday announced the country's second coronavirus- related death, the southern [...] Full text...

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WHO chief says coronavirus containment is key, as infections tick up

10 february 2020 - 20:13:20
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Governments should continue to treat containment of the coronavirus as a priority, the head of the [...] Full text...

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'No case of coronavirus in Zimbabwe' - Health ministry

02 february 2020 - 13:26:09
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Zimbabwe's Health and Child Care ministry has assured Zimbabweans that no case of coronavirus has been reported [...] Full text...

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Gambia: Chinese Ambassador says govt. is attaching high importance since coronavirus outbreak

30 january 2020 - 14:21:23
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Chinese Ambassador to The Gambia, Ma Jianchun, has said that the Chinese government has been attaching [...] Full text...

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Stepped-up efforts needed to combat pneumonia, says WHO

30 january 2020 - 07:40:37
New York, US (PANA) - Scaling up pneumonia-related interventions could save the lives of nearly nine million children during the [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus disease diagnosis is available in Burkina Faso - says Ministry of Health

29 january 2020 - 15:15:06
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The diagnosis of Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) disease is possible in Burkina Faso at the National Reference [...] Full text...

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'Gambia monitoring Coronavirus spread'

28 january 2020 - 18:33:42
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The Gambian Ministry of Health has informed the general public of the outbreak of Novel CoronaVirus [...] Full text...

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Benin takes measures against coronavirus

28 january 2020 - 11:38:27
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Benin's Health Minister Prof. Benjamin Hounkpatin said Tuesday that the government has taken a series of [...] Full text...

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Kenya raises alert levels over coronavirus outbreak

26 january 2020 - 12:34:29
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – The Ministry of Health has enhanced Kenya's level of alertness in response to the outbreak of [...] Full text...

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No cases of coronavirus-related disease detected in Burkina Faso, health ministry says

24 january 2020 - 10:54:39
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA - Burkina Faso's ministry of health said on Friday that no cases of coronavirus-related disease have [...] Full text...

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Rwanda warns passengers about China coronavirus outbreak

22 january 2020 - 09:24:17
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwanda's health officials on Tuesday issued a warning about the coronavirus which is spreading fast in [...] Full text...

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More pregnant women, children protected from malaria, but more needs to be done: WHO

04 december 2019 - 07:28:40
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The number of pregnant women and children in sub-Saharan Africa sleeping under insecticide-treated bed nets and benefiting [...] Full text...

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Measles claims more than 5,000 lives in DRC this year - UNICEF

28 november 2019 - 05:54:34
Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - Since the beginning of 2019, measles has claimed more than 5,000 lives in the Democratic Republic of [...] Full text...

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UNICEF says Nigeria had world's highest death figure from pneumonia in 2018

12 november 2019 - 07:24:31
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) says that Nigeria recorded the highest global deaths of 162,000 [...] Full text...

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Pneumonia kills one child every 39 seconds - UNICEF

11 november 2019 - 18:57:04
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Pneumonia, a preventable disease, kills more children than any other infection, claiming the lives of more [...] Full text...

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WHO aids flood-hit populations across Africa

09 november 2019 - 09:32:53
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Flood-hit populations across Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean Region face increased risk of illness or death [...] Full text...

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Africa: A fertile ground for trafficking of illicit drugs

07 october 2019 - 11:47:38
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Street drugs, counterfeit drugs, fake drugs or medical products of lower or falsified quality. All these [...] Full text...

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Fake medicines, drugs, Ghana’s health burden (Feature by Ray Ankomah)

16 september 2019 - 11:01:47
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Occasionally, the Ghana Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) carries out snap checks in the major markets [...] Full text...

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Gambian consumer rights chief concerned over proliferation of fake drugs (Feature by Momodou L. Jaitey, PANA correspondent)

16 september 2019 - 10:45:27
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Alpha Jallow, a leading pro-consumer rights champion in the Gambia, has expressed grave concern over the [...] Full text...

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Fake medicines, drugs, Ghana’s health burden (Feature by Ray Ankomah)

13 september 2019 - 13:48:04
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Occasionally, the Ghana Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) carries out snap checks in the major markets [...] Full text...

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Gambian consumer rights chief concerned over proliferation of fake drugs (Feature by Momodou L. Jaitey, PANA correspondent)

13 september 2019 - 13:42:09
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Alpha Jallow, a leading pro-consumer rights champion in the Gambia, has expressed grave concern over the [...] Full text...

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Ivorian factory to turn plastic waste into bricks

29 july 2019 - 12:28:39
Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), in partnership with the Colombian social enterprise, Conceptos Plásticos, [...] Full text...

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WHO steps up fight against ‘invisible pandemic’ of antimicrobial resistance

19 june 2019 - 04:17:20
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - As resistance to antibiotics grows, the World Health Organization (WHO) has launched the latest stage of [...] Full text...

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Vaccination rate estimated at 95 per cent in Rwanda

07 may 2019 - 11:31:42
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwanda maintains an estimated immunization rate of 95 pc, as part of its national immunization campaign, [...] Full text...

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Niger launches m-health initiative for better management of childhood diseases

31 march 2019 - 14:56:24
Niamey, Niger (PANA) - Nigerien health authorities last week launched the pilot phase of the m-Health (mobile for Health) initiative [...] Full text...

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On the first day of 2019, over 395,000 babies to be born worldwide: UNICEF

01 january 2019 - 08:24:22
New York, US (PANA) - As the calendar flips to 2019, about 395,072 babies will be born around the world, [...] Full text...

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Somewhere, every five seconds, a child under-15 dies: new UN report

18 september 2018 - 05:28:23
New York, US (PANA) - Around 6.3 million children under the age of 15, died from mostly preventable causes last [...] Full text...

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More than 100 drowned on shipwreck off Libyan coast a week ago, survivors say

11 september 2018 - 06:45:38
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - More than a hundred people have reportedly died after a shipwreck off the Libyan coast one [...] Full text...

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MSF treats 65 Ebola patients in first month in North Kivu

10 september 2018 - 05:56:55
Beni, DRC (PANA) - Medical charity, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), says it has treated 65 patients confirmed to be diagnosed [...] Full text...

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Over 1 million forcibly displaced by violence in south-west Ethiopia get humanitarian aid

05 august 2018 - 03:24:03
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - To address the urgent needs of more than a million displaced by inter-communal violence in southwestern [...] Full text...

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AfDB gives Burkina Faso 18-million-euro budget support

19 july 2018 - 15:49:50
Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group on Wednesday approved 18 [...] Full text...

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90% people worldwide breathe polluted air - says WHO

02 may 2018 - 06:38:16
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Air pollution levels remain dangerously high in many parts of the world with new data released [...] Full text...

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Millions of children still missing out on routine immunizations – UNICEF

25 april 2018 - 04:57:57
New York, US (PANA) - At the start of World Immunization Week , the United Nations on Tuesday said that [...] Full text...

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Medical charity moves to vaccinate some 10,000 children in Mali

10 april 2018 - 09:46:33
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Being vaccinated against diseases like diphtheria, measles, whooping cough, meningitis, pneumonia, yellow fever, and other potentially [...] Full text...

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‘It’s her turn,’ says UN agency, issuing global call to close critical gap in refugee girls’ education

07 march 2018 - 22:25:51
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - By secondary-level education, refugee girls are only half as likely as their male peers to enrol [...] Full text...

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Swine flu outbreak reported in Kenya’s Laikipia region

07 march 2018 - 14:48:22
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – An outbreak of H1N1 virus, also known as Swine influenza, has been reported in Laikipia in [...] Full text...

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Remote Nigeria communities welcome child health programme (A WHO Feature)

04 february 2018 - 01:25:35
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - We have travelled for over 2 hours from Minna in Nigeria’s rural Niger State. The final [...] Full text...

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WHO warms about antibiotic resistance

29 january 2018 - 19:58:47
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) – Antimicrobials have been a driver of unprecedented medical and societal advances, but their overuse has [...] Full text...

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Nearly 386,000 children will be born worldwide on New Year’s Day, says UNICEF

01 january 2018 - 04:14:37
New York, USA (PANA) – Approximately 386,000 babies will be born on New Year’s Day, the UN Children's Fund [...] Full text...

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Up to 650,000 people die of respiratory diseases linked to seasonal flu each year - Health partners

14 december 2017 - 10:22:25
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Up to 650,000 deaths annually are associated with respiratory diseases from seasonal influenza, according to new [...] Full text...

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Historic heart transplant commemorated in Cape Town

01 december 2017 - 13:45:20
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Leading surgeons from around the world have gathered in Cape Town, South Africa, to [...] Full text...

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'1 in 10 medical products in developing countries is substandard or falsified' - WHO

29 november 2017 - 08:00:45
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - An estimated 1 in 10 medical products circulating in low- and middle-income countries is either substandard [...] Full text...

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Antibiotic resistance is ‘crisis we cannot ignore,’ UN warns

14 november 2017 - 06:55:46
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) – As World Antibiotic Awareness Week began on Monday, the United Nations, through its Food and Agriculture [...] Full text...

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Kenya losing 31,000 children to pneumonia annually - minister

13 november 2017 - 19:24:48
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - An estimated 31,000 children die in Kenya annually as a result of pneumonia and diarrhoea, which [...] Full text...

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Pneumonia, world's deadliest disease; kills two children every minute, says Save the Children

02 november 2017 - 12:03:30
London, UK (PANA) - Nearly one million children a year are dying from pneumonia even though it can be treated [...] Full text...

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Measles deaths fall, but world still far from eliminating disease – Report

27 october 2017 - 04:50:45
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) – Annual deaths from measles have dropped below 100,000 last year for the first time, United Nations [...] Full text...

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7,000 newborns die every day, despite steady decrease in under-five mortality - Report

19 october 2017 - 06:08:05
New York, USA (PANA) – Every day in 2016, 15,000 children died before their fifth birthday, 46 per cent of [...] Full text...

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Switzerland: Not enough new antibiotics in the pipeline, UN report warns

20 september 2017 - 22:27:47
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA)– Too few new antibiotics are under development to combat the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance, a United [...] Full text...

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Switzerland: All countries fail to meet breastfeeding standards - New report

01 august 2017 - 09:11:10
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - No country in the world fully meets recommended standards for breastfeeding, according to a new report [...] Full text...

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Switzerland: 1 in 10 infants worldwide did not receive any vaccinations in 2016 - Report

17 july 2017 - 15:29:08
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Worldwide, 12.9 million infants, nearly 1 in 10, did not receive any vaccinations in 2016, according [...] Full text...

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US: Investments in poor children save more lives per dollar spent, new UNICEF study says

28 june 2017 - 05:58:06
New York, US (PANA) – Investing in the health and survival of the most deprived children and communities provides more [...] Full text...

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Switzerland: WHO updates Essential Medicines List with new advice on use of antibiotics

06 june 2017 - 18:34:43
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - New advice on which antibiotics to use for common infections and which to preserve for the [...] Full text...

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Switzerland: WHO, partners worried by high adolescent deaths from preventable causes

16 may 2017 - 11:43:34
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - More than 3,000 adolescents die every day, totalling 1.2 million deaths a year, from largely preventable [...] Full text...

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US: UNICEF reaches almost half of the world’s children with life-saving vaccines

26 april 2017 - 06:45:23
New York, US (PANA) – The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) procured 2.5 billion doses of vaccines to children in nearly [...] Full text...

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Switzerland: WHO announces World Immunization Week to be held 24-30 April

20 april 2017 - 09:58:40
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - UN World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday announced World Immunization Week from 24-30 April, which aims [...] Full text...

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Switzerland: WHO says polluted environment causes 1.7 million child deaths a year

06 march 2017 - 11:24:45
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - More than 1 in 4 deaths of children under 5 years of age are attributable to [...] Full text...

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UN: WHO lists antibiotic-resistant bacteria

28 february 2017 - 07:25:34
New York, US (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) has published its first-ever catalogue of antibiotic-resistant bacteria that pose [...] Full text...

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UN: Donors pledge US$670 mln for humanitarian support to Chad, Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon

25 february 2017 - 04:00:40
New York, US (PANA) - A UN-supported humanitarian conference in Oslo, Norway on Friday generated more than US$670 million [...] Full text...

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UN: UNICEF, partners begin mass measles' vaccinations in Somalia

19 december 2016 - 17:28:42
New York, US (PANA) - Following a major measles outbreak in Somalia, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and its partners [...] Full text...

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UN: 400,000 children may suffer malnutrition in Nigeria's northeast - UNICEF

14 december 2016 - 18:43:13
New York, US (PANA) - Around 400,000 children in Nigeria's restive northeast may suffer from severe acute malnutrition over the [...] Full text...

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UN: WHO launches new portal to track universal health coverage

12 december 2016 - 20:29:03
New York, US (PANA) - Marking Universal Health Coverage Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) Monday has launched a new [...] Full text...

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Switzerland: WHO warns world heading towards ‘post-antibiotic era’

15 november 2016 - 05:03:02
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - With a worldwide call on everyone, everywhere to play their part in maintaining the effectiveness of [...] Full text...

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Morocco: UNICEF calls for tough action on pneumonia, diarrhoea

12 november 2016 - 07:47:42
Marrakech, Morocco (PANA) - The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says pneumonia and diarrhoea kill some 1.4 million children each [...] Full text...

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UN: Pregnant women, children drown off Libyan coast - UNICEF

04 november 2016 - 14:38:27
New York, US (PANA) - A number of children and pregnant women were among the 240 people reported to have [...] Full text...

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US: 300 million children breathing toxic air - UNICEF report

31 october 2016 - 08:56:34
New York, US (PANA) – A new report by the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) says almost one in seven of [...] Full text...

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UN: World leaders commit to act on antimicrobial resistance

21 september 2016 - 20:21:09
New York, US (PANA) - World leaders on Wednesday at the UN headquarters in New York expressed their collective efforts [...] Full text...

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Switzerland: 'Antiretroviral therapy reduces risk of life-threatening HIV-related infections'

20 june 2016 - 18:07:48
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Adults and children with HIV who start antiretroviral therapy (ART) as early as possible reduce their [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: Recoveries from looted funds, Muhammad Ali's death fill Nigerian papers

04 june 2016 - 14:40:30
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Government's "bombshell" on recoveries from looted funds and the sudden death of boxing legend Muhammad Ali [...] Full text...

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UN: 'Most countries lack adequate laws to protect, promote breastfeeding'

09 may 2016 - 20:38:27
New York, US (PANA) - Laws to protect breastfeeding against the growing multi-billion-dollar breast-milk substitute business are inadequate in most [...] Full text...

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Mauritius: Mauritius introduces Pneumococcal Vaccine

24 march 2016 - 12:28:09
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritius on Thursday introduced the Pneumococcal Vaccine to its Expanded Programme on Immunisation as recommended [...] Full text...

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Ghana: Meningitis deaths, reduction in power tariff reported in Ghana

30 january 2016 - 07:23:33
Accra, Ghana (PANA) – The Ghanaian media this week reported the rising deaths from the outbreak of pneumococcal meningitis and [...] Full text...

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Switzerland: Increasing breastfeeding could save 800,000 children a year

29 january 2016 - 11:59:03
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A major new Series on breastfeeding, published in medical journal, “The Lancet”, finds that despite strong [...] Full text...

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Italy: FAO focuses on animal-borne diseases

29 january 2016 - 11:30:21
Rome, Italy (PANA) - Infectious animal-borne disease threats such as Ebola and the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) are [...] Full text...

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Ghana: Meningitis causes health concern in Ghana, kills 32

25 january 2016 - 11:31:31
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The outbreak of a variant of meningitis in parts of Ghana is causing public health concern [...] Full text...

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Kenya: Philips introduces new diagnostic device to prevent childhood pneumonia deaths

12 november 2015 - 11:29:03
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Technology company, Philips on Thursday announced the upcoming release of a Children's Automated Respiration Monitor, aimed [...] Full text...

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Malawi: IOM assists stranded Ethiopian migrants to return home from Malawi

06 november 2015 - 13:54:48
Lilongwe, Malawi (PANA) - Fifty Ethiopian irregular migrants who were stranded in Malawi returned home this week under the facilitation [...] Full text...

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Kenya: World effort to cut infant mortality nearly cuts deaths by half; strong show in Africa

09 september 2015 - 21:14:40
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The World nearly hit the target of cutting the death of children by half from the [...] Full text...

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US: 'Child mortality rates drops by over half since 1990'

09 september 2015 - 09:57:13
New York, US (PANA) - Child mortality rates have plummeted to less than half of what they were in 1990, [...] Full text...

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UN: New UN report highlights impact of Ebola on nine million children

17 march 2015 - 15:17:43
New York, US (PANA) - The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), in a report released on Tuesday, said about nine million [...] Full text...

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South Africa: Cape Town doctors perform successful penis transplant

14 march 2015 - 08:32:19
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Nearly 50 years after a team of Cape Town surgeons made medical history by [...] Full text...

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Tanzania: Kikwete joins global leaders at immunisation fund raising

27 january 2015 - 11:29:07
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete has arrived in Berlin, Germany, to attend a high-level meeting [...] Full text...

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Libya: Health officials on alert after reported cases of severe pneumonia

29 december 2014 - 20:42:43
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – The technical and monitoring committee at the Libyan disease centre has met to discuss the diagnosis [...] Full text...

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Madagascar: WHO confirms outbreak of Plague in Madagascar, over 40 killed

22 november 2014 - 09:34:42
Antananarivo, Madagascar (PANA) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) has confirmed the outbreak of Plague, a deadly infectious disease that [...] Full text...

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UN: UN unveils move to make cooking safe for 10m people by 2020

22 november 2014 - 07:39:22
New York, US (PANA) - Every year, household air pollution from cooking kills over four million people and sickens millions [...] Full text...

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UN: UN stresses importance of improving children’s health

17 november 2014 - 18:42:49
New York, US (PANA) - Marking the fourth World Prematurity Day, the UN said the complications of preterm birth outrank [...] Full text...

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UN: WHO highlights dangers of indoor air pollution

13 november 2014 - 08:25:28
New York, US (PANA) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) has highlighted the dangers of burning fuels like unprocessed coal [...] Full text...

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UN: UNICEF calls for greater efforts in preventing child pneumonia deaths

12 november 2014 - 18:52:51
New York, US (PANA) - Although significant declines in child deaths from pneumonia demonstrate that strategies to defeat the disease [...] Full text...

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UN: Ban urges greater global support to fight Ebola

12 september 2014 - 21:59:49
New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday welcomed signs of solidarity in the fight against the [...] Full text...

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UK: GSK, Save the Children offer US$1m award for healthcare innovations

01 july 2014 - 10:12:17
London, United Kingdom (PANA) - Global research-based pharmaceutical and healthcare firm GSK and Save the Children have announced the [...] Full text...

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UN: Paucity of funds threatens UNICEF services in Somalia

28 may 2014 - 15:19:48
New York, US (PANA) - The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned that it will have to suspend essential health [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: When villagers say ‘No More Open Defecation’ (Feature by Buki Ponle, PANA Special Correspondent)

23 may 2014 - 07:43:55
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The children of Abule Oke Akeju farming community in Odeda Local Government Area of Nigeria's South-west [...] Full text...

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Tanzania: Three African nations register large gains in life expectancy

15 may 2014 - 11:45:20
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Three sub-Sahara African countries - Liberia, Ethiopia and Rwanda - are among the world’s [...] Full text...

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UN: WHO says antibiotic resistance 'serious threat' to global public health

30 april 2014 - 20:35:33
New York, US (PANA) - UN World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday released a report saying that antibiotic resistance is [...] Full text...

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Zambia: UNECA top official calls for greening Africa’s economy

04 april 2014 - 15:16:24
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – The executive secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Carlos Lopes, says time has [...] Full text...

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South Sudan: UN agency warns of emerging diseases in South Sudan

26 january 2014 - 17:33:09
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Despite the ceasefire signed late last week between the warring parties in South Sudan, UNICEF has [...] Full text...

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UN: UNICEF gives succour to women, children in South Sudan

22 january 2014 - 17:39:44
New York, US (PANA) - UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says it has airlifted humanitarian supplies for women and children in [...] Full text...

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UN agencies, partners say simple actions can reduce pneumonia deaths

12 november 2013 - 19:04:14
New York, US (PANA) – The UN agencies and their partners are marking World Pneumonia Day on Tuesday by highlighting [...] Full text...

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Pneumonia still responsible for 1/5th of child deaths - WHO

12 november 2013 - 14:20:37
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - As the 5th World Pneumonia Day is marked 12 Nov., the World Health Organization (WHO) has [...] Full text...

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UN chief says water holds key to sustainable development

08 october 2013 - 18:41:45
New York, US (PANA) – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, on Tuesday stressed the vital role of water in sustainable [...] Full text...

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Global child deaths halved in 12 years, 'remarkable progress' in sub-Saharan Africa

13 september 2013 - 10:59:06
New York, US (PANA) - Sub-Saharan Africa recorded remarkable progress in reducing child deaths as the global rate was reduced [...] Full text...

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Reducing mortality rates “a war we must win” - Yvonne Chaka Chaka

03 august 2013 - 17:00:07
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – An African Union (AU) conference aimed at complementing ongoing efforts to improve the health [...] Full text...

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AU holds health conference in SA

02 august 2013 - 10:02:00
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - An African Union (AU) conference aimed at complementing ongoing efforts to improve the health [...] Full text...

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World Breastfeeding Week: Only 1 in 5 countries fully implement WHO's infant formula code

30 july 2013 - 10:27:43
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Only 37 countries, or 19% of those reporting, have passed laws reflecting all the recommendations of [...] Full text...

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No Coronovirus in Nigeria's most populous city, officials say

26 july 2013 - 15:50:39
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Officials in Nigeria's most populous city of Lagos said Friday no case of the deadly Coronavirus [...] Full text...

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Mandela readmitted to hospital

08 june 2013 - 07:01:24
Pretoria, South Africa (PANA) - Former South African President Nelson Mandela has been readmitted to hospital in Pretoria after his [...] Full text...

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Africa starts rebuilding for a better self-image (News analysis)

23 may 2013 - 15:07:35
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – “What kind of Africa are we creating?”, a prominent Kenyan scholar and international consultant raised [...] Full text...

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New UN study highlights huge potential for clean energy in Africa

13 may 2013 - 22:52:19
New York, US (PANA) - A new UN study has said that less than one per cent of all patent [...] Full text...

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Hand Hygiene Day: WHO tasks patients on hand hygiene

03 may 2013 - 10:11:21
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Ahead of the 2013 Hand Hygiene Day (5 May), the World Health Organization (WHO) has [...] Full text...

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ANC slammed over Mandela footage

30 april 2013 - 11:20:49
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) has been heavily criticised after the South [...] Full text...

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Uganda introduces pneumococcal vaccine to curb infant, child deaths

28 april 2013 - 09:30:10
Bugabwe, Uganda (PANA) - Uganda has formally introduced the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) into the country’s routine immunization schedule to [...] Full text...

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Malaria: UN envoy calls for measures to save 4.4 million children's lives

25 april 2013 - 17:02:20
New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General’s newly-appointed Special Envoy for Financing the Health Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and for [...] Full text...

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Third African Vaccination Week to be celebrated 22-28 April

20 april 2013 - 14:08:59
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The third African Vaccination Week (AVW), organized by the World Health Organization (WHO) Africa Region, will [...] Full text...

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WHO, UNICEF launch new programme to save 2m children

12 april 2013 - 08:28:05
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - A new Global Action Plan launched on Friday by the World Health Organization (WHO) and [...] Full text...

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Third African Vaccination Week holds 22-28 April

12 april 2013 - 08:10:12
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The third African Vaccination Week (AVW), an initiative led by the World Health Organization (WHO) and [...] Full text...

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Mandela discharged from hospital

06 april 2013 - 14:36:29
Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - Former South African President Nelson Mandela has been discharged from the hospital, nine days after [...] Full text...

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Mandela's health continues to improve - Govt

03 april 2013 - 18:12:54
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Former South African President Nelson Mandela’s health continues to improve after nearly a week [...] Full text...

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UNICEF steps up fight against 'avoidable diseases' in Burundi

15 january 2013 - 20:32:36
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is assisting the Burundian government step up itsa fight against [...] Full text...

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MSF deplores malnutrition, mortality among Malian refugees in Mauritania

10 january 2013 - 22:39:59
Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – The medical NGO, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), has expressed alarm at the rate of malnutrition and [...] Full text...

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Nelson Mandela treated for lung infection

12 december 2012 - 08:24:52
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Global icon Nelson Mandela is being treated for a lung infection, the Office of [...] Full text...

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African countries urged to reach all children with immunisation services

10 december 2012 - 22:25:20
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Tanzania's Minister of Health and Social Welfare Hussein Mwinyi Monday opened the fourth meeting of the [...] Full text...

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CECAFA, WASH United join hands to promote hygiene

29 november 2012 - 07:04:31
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Harnessing the power of sport to facilitate live-saving behavioural change, the Council for East [...] Full text...

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Mauritius focuses on antimicrobial resistance

20 november 2012 - 12:54:05
Balaclava, Mauritius (PANA) - Antimicrobial resistance is a critical health issue and is increasingly posing a challenge to the medical [...] Full text...

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Oxfam calls for end to 'risky' malaria programme

24 october 2012 - 08:39:13
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - A programme designed as a “silver bullet” to fight malaria could actually be endangering [...] Full text...

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Sub-Saharan Africa doubles rate of reduction in child mortality- Report

13 september 2012 - 12:31:15
New York, US (PANA) - The pace of reducing child deaths has accelerated sharply since 2000, with sub-Saharan Africa, the [...] Full text...

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Population of Gambia's "street children" growing at alarming rate

13 august 2012 - 16:02:13
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Gambian authorities have expressed concern over the fate of "street children without parental care" across the [...] Full text...

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Rio+20: WHO tasks conference on link between human health, sustainable development

19 june 2012 - 10:37:44
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) has tasked the 20-22 June UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) [...] Full text...

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UNICEF, partners launch global efforts check child deaths

15 june 2012 - 13:45:07
New York, US (PANA) - The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has joined governments and partners from the private sector, civil [...] Full text...

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Tackling pneumonia, diarrhoea can improve child survival - UNICEF

08 june 2012 - 07:37:36
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The potential for saving children’s lives is huge if proven, cost-effective interventions for pneumonia [...] Full text...

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WHO highlights importance of good hand hygiene for patient safety

04 may 2012 - 18:45:27
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - More than 15,000 health-care facilities from 156 countries are represented at the World Health Organization’s (WHO) [...] Full text...

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Ghana introduces 2 new vaccines, as African Vaccination Week is launched

26 april 2012 - 21:08:18
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana on Thursday made history as the first African country to simultaneously introduce pneumococcal and rotavirus [...] Full text...

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New strategy to cut measles death announced

24 april 2012 - 08:51:43
New York, US (PANA) - The partners leading the efforts to control measles Tuesday announced a new global strategy aimed [...] Full text...

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First-ever World Immunization Week rolls out in 180 countries

24 april 2012 - 08:38:56
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The first-ever World Health Organization’s World Immunization Week (WIW) has kicked off with activities in [...] Full text...

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African Vaccination Week holds 23-28 April

17 april 2012 - 13:33:29
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The 2012 African Vaccination Week (AVW) is to be held across the continent 23-28 April under [...] Full text...

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UN launches commission on life-saving commodities for women, children

23 march 2012 - 09:59:51
New York, US (PANA) - The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) have launched a high-level Commission [...] Full text...

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WHO study shows how to reduce maternal, newborn, child deaths

15 december 2011 - 13:41:27
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A three-year study by the World Health Organization (WHO) and two other organizations has identified key [...] Full text...

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New studies show progress against pneumonia in developing countries

10 november 2011 - 10:38:01
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Vaccines against the primary cause of deaths from pneumonia in developing countries could save [...] Full text...

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Horn of Africa food crisis far from over, says UNICEF

25 october 2011 - 18:43:38
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The massive international response to the child survival crisis in the Horn of Africa has already [...] Full text...

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New vaccines to avert 50,000 child deaths in Kenya

28 september 2011 - 13:55:37
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan health officials Tuesday welcomed the launch of vaccines to protect children in Africa from diarrhea [...] Full text...

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Burundi to vaccinate children under-five against pneumococcus

14 september 2011 - 18:26:06
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - A new vaccine against pneumococcus will be introduced from 20 September in the routine immunization to [...] Full text...

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Fewer newborns dying worldwide, Africa left behind - Report

31 august 2011 - 08:46:46
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - A newly-published report has shown that while fewer newborns are dying worldwide, progress is too [...] Full text...

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UNHCR airlifts aid to Somalia for Eid-el-Fitr holiday

30 august 2011 - 17:55:39
New York, US (PANA) - The UN High Commission for Refugee (UNHCR) said Tuesday it would airlift 240 tons of [...] Full text...

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Cholera outbreak in Mogadishu worries UN aid workers

18 august 2011 - 16:47:00
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) has confirmed an outbreak of Cholera in Somalia, which has affected [...] Full text...

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UN campaign against measles reaches 3.1 million DRC children

26 july 2011 - 18:48:54
New York, US (PANA) - A UN-coordinated campaign against measles, which has claimed the lives of 1,145 children since the [...] Full text...

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7 African countries to launch large anti-pneumococcal campaign

05 july 2011 - 15:41:06
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Seven African countries have pledged to conduct an immunization campaign against pneumococcal disease by the end [...] Full text...

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UN commission sets stage to improve women's, children's health

02 may 2011 - 18:14:40
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The UN Commission on Information and Accountability for Women's and Children's Health Monday concluded [...] Full text...

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