Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya's veterinary department has embarked on an ambitious programme to screen and treat all the country's livestock against contagious trans-border diseases like Bovine Pleuro-Pneumonia. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- South African children as a whole consume just 67-percent of the recommended dietary intake of nutrients and nearly half of all long-distance truck drivers are night blind because of deficiency in vitamin A. Full text...

Saly- Senegal (PANA) -- The West African Health Organisation (WAHO) is tackling malnutrition under priority programme for the 2003-2007 period, an official has said. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Rumours and misconception that vaccines were laced with family planning drugs are believed to have caused the low turn-out of women for immunisation against tetanus in Kenya's eastern Coastal Province. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- About two million children under five years in Zimbabwe will be vaccinated against measles in June when the country carries out its second campaign in four years to combat the disease. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The World Health Organisation (WHO) says about half of the 10. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The latest UN Food Security Assessment Unit (FSAU) nutritional survey on Gedo region in southern Somalia has produced 'alarming' results. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- Residents of Oued El-Abtal in the Mascara prefecture of Mascara, 360-km west of Algiers, angrily reacted Monday to the death of seven babies after being vaccinated against measles. Full text...

Ouagadougou- Burkina Faso (PANA) -- President Blaise Compaore of Burkina Faso on Tuesday officially launched the national vaccination campaign against measles in Ouargaye, 225 km east of Ouagadougou. Full text...

Moroni- Comoros (PANA) -- Fifty percent of children in Anjouan Island (part of the Comoro Islands) suffer from malnutrition while the health conditions of children under five years of age and women have seriously deteriorated in the past few years, the island's director of health, Dr Mahamoud Said revealed Monday. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Health officials say some 76 000 children below five years would be vaccinated in Senegal's third largest town, Kaolack, some 189 km from Dakar, during a national vaccination campaign starting next Monday. Full text...

Geneva- Switzerland (PANA) -- Cardiovascular disorders are likely to be leading causes of deaths in Africa in the next 20 years, nutritional health experts attending the global forum for health research here have warned. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- Burundi on Monday embarked on a vaccination campaign against poliomyelitis aimed at reaching 95 percent of all the children below the age of five. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Ghana's Vice President Aliu Mahama on Monday predicted that high mortality rates would occur among children below the age of five if their nutrition is not improved within the next five years. Full text...

Praia- Cape Verde (PANA) -- About 80 per cent of women in Cape Verde breast-feed their babies until right through the 12th month, although not exclusively, health sources noted in a campaign sensitising mothers on the advantages of breast-feeding. Full text...

Oshakati- Namibia (PANA) -- Oshana regional governor Clemens Kashuupulwa has conceded that under-nutrition was now a big threat to the lives of many Namibian children below the age of five. Full text...

Kigali- Rwanda (PANA) -- Rwanda's national immunisation campaign is to be launched next Tuesday, the country's health ministry announced in Kigali Saturday. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- More than 4. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritian Social Security and National Solidarity Minister Sam Lauthan Wednesday launched an anti-influenza vaccination campaign for the elderly. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- UNICEF regional director for Western and Central Africa, Rima Salah arrived Wednesday in Kinshasa to participate in the official launching of the National Immunisation Days (NID 2001) in Central Africa. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- A workshop intended to train health agents to effectively care for undesirable post-vaccinal reactions opened Monday in Dakar involving national pharmaceutical regulations, national vaccination programme staff and other health agents from Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Mali and Senegal. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- The Mozambican Health ministry has indicated it plans to include, beginning July, Hepatitis B vaccination in the ongoing national immunisation programme. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Japan and UNICEF signed Friday an agreement under which a grant of 4. Full text...