Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- Japan has donated to Mali, equipment worth 834 million CFA F, to support the routine Enlarged Vaccination Programme (PEV), PANA learnt from the Malian Health Ministry. Full text...

Huambo- Angola (PANA) -- About 50,000 children under-five were vaccinated on Frid ay against poliomyelitis in the central Huambo province on the first day of the e xercise. Full text...

Luanda- Angola (PANA) -- At least US$4 million has been earmarked by several UN a gencies for the implementation of a programme to combat malnutrition in Angola. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has granted PROMETRA (International organization for the promotion of traditional medicine) US$ 1. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- Mali on Sunday launched a national immunization campaign a gainst poliomyelitis aimed at eradicating the disease from the country. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The National Director of Micronutrient Initiative Senega l, Mr. Full text...

Bugesera- Rwanda (PANA) -- A large-scale immunisation campaign against measles fo r some three million Rwandan children was officially launched on Tuesday in Buge s era, a district in south-eastern Rwanda. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) is appealing for US$1. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- Italian Non-Governmental Organisation Ali Per Volare will on Tuesday launch a 20-day immunisation campaign against various diseases in northern Congo. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- Congo is boosting its national disease prevention policy with the introduction of Pentavalent in the Extended Programme on Immunzation (EPI) and the official launch of the new vaccine Wednesday in Ignie, 45 km north of Brazzaville. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The Mauritanian Ministry of Health and Social Af fairs on Sunday began a vaccination campaign against tetanus for new-born babies and mothers, an official statement said in Nouakchott on Monday. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- The Mozambican health authorities Monday, with the s upport of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and other partners, launch e d the second phase of "National Child Health Week", with the goal of vaccinating 3. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- In a bid to curb the acute shortage of nutrition personn el in Kenya, the ministry of medical services will recruit more nutritionists to meet demand, Medical Services Minister Anyang' Nyong'o has said. Full text...

Freetown- Sierra Leone (PANA) -- A team of ECOWAS nutritionists has concluded a week-long plan for the 11th ECOWAS Nutrition Forum, scheduled to take place in Freetown, Sierra Leone, in September. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- An estimated 126,000 children are in need of urgent therapeutic care for severe malnutrition, according to the UN Children's Agency (UNICEF). Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Faced with a heavy disease burden caused by prevalent maternal and child undernourishment, Ethiopia Thursday launched its first-ever National Nutrition Strategy (NNS) to ensure its people live a healthy and productive life. Full text...

Conakry- Guinea (PANA) -- The Guinean government Thursday in Conakry launched the 2007 second round of immunisation of 2 million children against several killer diseases. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- Burundi health authorities say they will vaccinate 5 . Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has announced plans to immunize approximately 100,000 internally displaced persons in Somalia this week with those to benefit being Somalis living in camps along the Mogadishu-Afgoye corridor. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- The Malian government and the Voice of Africa Project plan to organise a national immunization drive among children, aged up to five years , against measles, poliomyelitis, worms, the Health Ministry told PANA Tuesday. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- The Malian government and the Voice of Africa Project plan to organise a national immunization drive among children, aged up to five years , against measles, poliomyelitis, worms, the Health Ministry told PANA Tuesday. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- The Malian government and the Voice of Africa Project plan to organise a national immunization drive among children, aged up to five years , against measles, poliomyelitis, worms, the Health Ministry told PANA Tuesday. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- The Malian government plans to launch an immunization campaign against measles and polyomyelitis 13-19 December, an official source said here Friday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- United Nations relief agencies operating in refugee camps in northern Kenya on Tuesday warned of alarming levels of malnutrition in refugee camps. Full text...

Freetown- Sierra Leone (PANA) -- The UN children's fund (UNICEF) country representative for Sierra Leone, Geert Cappelaere, has said 30 percent of Sierra Leonean children under five years were underweight compared to other countries within the region. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- The first congress of the Federation of African Nutrition Societies (FANUS) will be held from 7 to 9 May in Ouarzazate, south-eastern Morocco, according to a statement published Thursday in Rabat by the Moroccan Nutrition Society. Full text...

Abidjan- Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) -- Some 40,000 Ivorian children under age five are malnourished, according to Fokouo Kouadio Gualbert, an official with the National Nutrition Programme. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- More than 38,000 Mauritanian children are suffering from malnutrition, the official news agency, MAP, reported Tuesday, quoting the Secretary General of the Health and Social Affairs ministry, Mohamed Ould Ely Telmoudy. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- A Libyan cargo plane carrying humanitarian aid and medical consignment including polio vaccines, arrived in Cotonou, Benin, late Sunday as part of a medical campaign launched by the Kadhafi Project for African Women, Children and Youth targeting 12 countries in the African continent. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Mozambican Prime Minister Luisa Diogo Monday urged African governments to step up vaccination efforts to improve primary health care on the continent. Full text...

Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) - – The government of Cameroon Monday launched an aggressive immunisation campaign aimed at curbing the spread of yellow fever, which was reported in seven health districts over the past seven months. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- An international facility to finance vaccination, IFFLM, meant to save the lives of 10 million children in about 70 countries, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa, has been launched in Paris. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Mauritania is not facing famine but a nutrition crisis, which requires urgent attention, according to Mustapha Darboe, Regional Director of the World Food Programme (WFP) for West and Central Africa. Full text...

Niamey- Niger (PANA) - – About 15. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- Malnutrition has risen by between 10% and 20% in eastern DR Congo, with the more than 1. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- The Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) on Monday released another disturbing statistics about the undeveloped north of the country indicating that about 43 percent of children there are malnourished. Full text...

Niamey- Niger (PANA) -- President Mamadou Tandja of Niger on Tuesday launched a nationwide campaign at Say, 50 km south of Niamey, whose objective is to reduce the impact of poliomyelitis and malaria among children and their mothers. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- At least 289 have died this year from malnutrition in the central Mozambican province of Sofala, national news agency, AIM reported Tuesday. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The World Food Programme (WFP) Friday called for greater international assistance to address worrying levels of malnutrition, particularly in the south and south-east of Mauritania. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Joint interventions by relief agencies have saved Sudanese refugees camped in the Gambella region of western Ethiopia from critical malnutrition, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) here reported Monday. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Without treatment, up to 170,000 children in Ethiopia could die this year from severe acute malnutrition, the local UNICEF office warned Wednesday here. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Critical malnutrition levels have been found in Bonga and Fugnido camps in western Ethiopia's Gambella Region where an estimated 50,000 Sudanese refugees are living. Full text...

Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) -- Cameroon achieved over 102% vaccination cover during the second synchronised vaccination days against the wild polio virus in April, the country's public health minister, Urbain Olanguena Awono told journalists here Monday. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- The international medical charity, Doctors without borders (MSF) called Tuesday for a general mobilisation to confront the worrying food situation in Niger, where it was currently attending to 3,000 severely malnourished children in the eastern locality of Maradi. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- The number of children with severe malnutrition being fed by the health NGO Medicins sans Frontieres in Maradi, south-eastern Niger is rising at an alarming rate, MSF revealed here Tuesday. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- The Director General of the Ghana Health Service, Agyeman Badu Akosa, Friday in Accra described the high malnutrition rate in the country as "unacceptably," with under-nutrition causing 50 percent of deaths in children. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- Malnutrition accounts for 48% of deaths among children under the age of five in the DR Congo, the director of the national nutrition programme (PRONANUT), Dr Banea Mayambu told PANA Wednesday. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The Office of the Mauritanian Food Security Commissioner (CSA) is to establish 123 child community nutrition centres in the Tagant, Brakna and Trarza regions, official sources hinted here Monday. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- There is need to make extra efforts to extend Senegal's nutritional enrichment programme to the entire country "despite the satisfactory results" already obtained in other parts areas, Claudia Rockx, the in-charge of the nutrition component at the World Bank Office in Senegal, has said. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The ten-year Nutritional Enrichment Programme (PRN) in Senegal is a major factor and indispensable tool to alleviate poverty in the country, Prime Minister Macky Sall emphasised here Thursday. Full text...