Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Prime Minister Macky Sall is expected to chair a workshop here Thursday to review the first half of the ten-year Nutritional Enrichment Programme (PRN) in Senegal, a government announced said Monday. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- Benin has made considerable progress in its battle against malnutrition, according to Eleonara Genovese, who headed a World Bank consultants' team which has concluded a tour here. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- All the table salt consumed in West and Central Africa will be iodized by the year 2005 as set by a Special Session of the UN General Assembly in May 2002, affirms Dr Victor Aguayo, nutritional adviser at the regional office of the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) here. Full text...

Libreville- Gabon (PANA) -- About 90 million FCFA is still missing from the budget to finance Gabon's measles vaccination campaign from 19 to 25 November but the country's health minister Paulette Missambo is determined to ensure the success of the operation, an official source told PANA here Friday. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- The minister of health in Benin, Yvette Céline Kandissounon on Monday described malnutrition in sub- Saharan Africa as a public health problem when she addressed the opening of the 9th annual forum of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on nutrition and HIV/AIDS. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- The 9th annual forum of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) nutrition network opened here Monday with Benin's health minister Céline Kandisounon urging participants to strategize on nutritional support for people living with HIV/AIDS. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- All African countries can attain food and nutrition security provided they make dedicated efforts to marshal the required human, institutional and material resources for the task, says Todd Benson, an international food consumption researcher based in the US capital of Washington, D. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- UNICEF has launched an intensive campaign to immunise children against measles and polio in western Sudan's civil war-ravaged Darfur region where fighting has killed at least 10,000 persons and displaced more than one million others. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- At least one in every 10 women in Nigeria is chronically malnourished, according to a just released survey on food and nutrition status in the country. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has expanded its school feeding programme in Zambia to cover 11 new schools, bringing the total number of beneficiaries to 24,000 pupils daily, acting WFP country director Jorge Fanlo-Martin said here Tuesday. Full text...

Douala- Cameroon (PANA) -- For fear of getting pregnant, Cameroonian women aged between 15-29 years have shunned the four-day maternal and neonatal vaccination campaign that got under way Wednesday in 22 health districts. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Zambia's Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection, a Catholic think-tank and campaign vehicle for increased social justice in the country, Wednesday called for a holistic approach to health delivery services so that the issue of HIV/AIDS can be tied to poor nutrition in the nation. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- Malnutrition is affecting more than a million of Burundi's seven million inhabitants, owing to war, the vagaries of the weather and poverty, an official of the World Food Programme (WFP) local office has revealed here. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- A vaccination campaign against measles began Wednesday in Trarza region, 204 km south of Nouakchott on the Senegal River valley, according to the Mauritanian News Agency (AMI). Full text...

Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade and his Nigerian counterpart Olesegun Obasanjo were being awaited here Wednesday evening to attend a continental conference on "Assuring Food and Nutrition Security in Africa by 2020" opening near Kampala Thursday. Full text...

Harare- Mozambique (PANA) -- An African expert on reproductive health has painted a grim picture of maternal and child health in the Region and warned that the situation could worsen in the next decade if no immediate remedial actions were taken by Africa's governments and development partners. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The World Health Organisation Africa Regional Office (WHO-AFRO) has scheduled a meeting 18-19 February in Harare, Zimbabwe to develop a roadmap and common strategy for accelerating and monitoring the attainment of the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) related to maternal and newborn health. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- World Food Programme (WFP) has disclosed that hundreds of Mauritanian mothers lose their babies due to insufficient food during pregnancy, passing on the malnourish state to the newly born. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The government of Senegal has indicated it was aiming at a vaccination coverage well beyond the 80 percent target fixed by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to improve especially the health of children. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- In its current expanded programme on immunisation (EPI), Senegal will introduce Pentavalent, a new vaccine meant to fight hepatitis and Hoemophilis influenza B and reinforce protection for children, Prime Minister Idrissa Seck disclosed here Wednesday. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Senegal Monday launched a ten-year programme to combat malnutrition in 740,000 children and 510,000 women in its rural and urban areas. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) have announced a unified approach to promote greater consumption of fruit and vegetables, a joint statement from the two UN bodies has said. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- Numbers of malnourished children could drop dramatically world-wide from the current 31% to 11 percent by 2050, says a report to be released by the Washington D. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) has launched HarvestPlus, a $100- million 10-year project aimed at increasing nutrition intake in sub-Saharan Africa. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- A rapid assessment conducted around the town of Mukjar in Sudan's West Darfur region by the NGO Medair, has found a high rate of malnutrition among children below the age of five. Full text...

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Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Average rates of malnutrition in war- torn southern Sudan have been steadily worsening since 2001 causing "a major humanitarian crisis," UNICEF says in a report. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- Malnutrition is a serious public health problem in DR Congo, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), in a poverty reduction strategy assessment document. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- Congolese Health and Population Minister Alain Moka has said the current vaccination coverage of less than 50 percent represented a failure for the health sector of the country, Radio Congo reported Wednesday. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- Congolese Health minister Alain Moka has launched a special campaign to vaccinate 0-14 year old children against measles and poliomyelitis. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Ethiopia is making a bold move to improve the health of children by wiping out what have been the characteristic indicators of their retarded growth. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The Department of Veterinary services in Kenya's northern district of Wajir has launched a vaccination campaign to combat sheep and goat pox, a disease that has so far claimed 20 goats in the area. Full text...

Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) -- Cameroon will not hold national vaccination campaigns in 2003 against measles and poliomyelitis, owing to a high rate of coverage during 2002, a health official said Friday. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- A caravan of medical aid from a Libyan charity, Aïcha (named after Colonel Mouammar Kadhafi's daughter) is in N'djamena for an immunisation campaign in the Chadian capital and its environs, press accounts indicated back here Wednesday. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) has expressed concern at the level of malnutrition among Mauritanian children, especially in the Brakna, Gorgol and Assaba regions. Full text...

Libreville- Gabon (PANA) -- Only 8 percent of babies between 0 and 4 months get exclusive breastfeeding in Gabon, says the president of the Gabonese association for the promotion of breastfeeding (AGPAI), Marcelle Epoulou, who nonetheless insists this is a great improvement from what obtained in the past. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- A UN official and a member of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) secretariat have urged SADC countries to substantially invest in agriculture in order to cope with the growing nutritional needs of the region's starving masses, especially people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA). Full text...

Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) -- The second phase of a vaccination campaign against Poliomyelitis in Cameroon has been slated for 21-25 January in 50 districts, mostly located in border areas, informed sources indicated Friday. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- UNICEF Tuesday kicked off a major campaign to vaccinate 3. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- Health authorities in Burundi are embarking on a nutrition programme that emphasises public knowledge of balanced diet for adults as well as children. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nutritionists in Nigeria have called for the establishment of an institute to address nutrition problems in the country. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria could lose 700 children and 18 mothers a day from anaemia and lack of protein-energy in the next eight years unless drastic measures are taken to stem malnutrition in the country, nutrition expert, Isaac Akinyele, has warned. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nutritionists met in Nigeria's commercial city of Lagos Wednesday to discuss nutrition and development, amid problems of large-scale malnutrition, poverty and hunger. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- At least nine million dollars is needed in the next three years to raise a global stock of yellow fever vaccine for averting outbreaks of the disease. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Angola has mobilised its army and medical staff who formerly worked for UNITA rebels to carry out a nationwide vaccination of children against polio. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade on Wednesday in Dakar urged African countries to involve the population in the fight against infant diseases in the continent. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Burundi's general inspector for health, Louis Mboneko, on Wednesday lamented the regression of vaccination rate in his country due its ten-year-old civil war. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade on Wednesday opened a workshop of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) here, attended by several hundreds of delegates, including 30 ministers of health and finance. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria has launched a policy on food and nutrition, which is expected to be implemented with 9. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Malnutrition levels are rising among Zimbabwean children and women due to drought, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said Thursday. Full text...