New York, US (PANA) - Early cancer diagnosis saves lives and cuts treatment costs, particularly in developing countries where the majority of cancer cases are diagnosed too late, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) said cervical cancer kills more than 250,000 women every year and that 85 per cent of these deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries, stressing the importance of vaccinating girls against the cancer-causing virus and screening programmes to detect and treat precancerous lesions. Full text...

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Not enough exercise contributes to cancer, diabetes, depression and other non-communicable diseases, according to the United Nations health agency, which is urging people to get up and get active. Full text...

Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Botswana’s progress toward a malaria-free nation has been applauded by the African Leaders Malaria Alliance (ALMA), an organ of the Africa Union. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union Summit is due to make a huge statement of the its preparedness to handle future health emergencies with the launch of the African Centre for Disease Control (CDC) to deal with outbreaks of epidemics affecting humans and animals, officials said Saturday. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - A major vaccination campaign against a measles outbreak in northeast Nigeria is reaching 4.7 million children, according to the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF). Full text...

New York, US (PANA) – A special adviser to the President of the United Nations General Assembly has stressed the importance of mental health for all actions to be taken to achieve sustainable development goals. Full text...

Edinburgh, UK (PANA) - Large-scale programmes to treat a life-threatening disease could improve the health of millions despite concerns about their long-term effects, a study suggests. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, leaves Abuja Thursday for the United Kingdom “on a short leave”, which is part of his annual vacation, a Presidential statement has said. Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwandan Health officials on Wednesday warned against bird flu in humans in the wake of detection of the virus at poultry farms in neighbouring Uganda. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - A United Nations-supported mass vaccination campaign has started to protect more than 4.7 million children against a measles outbreak in conflict-affected states in north-eastern Nigeria. Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The Rwandan army on Friday launched a campaign aimed at encouraging military personnel to regularly donate blood and help save lives. Full text...

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Policies to control tobacco use, including tobacco tax and price increases, can generate significant government revenues for health and development work, according to a new global report from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the National Cancer Institute of the United States of America. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned against a strong HIV/AIDS prevalence in Libya in view of the security chaos that caused the disintegration of its health system. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Two million Sudanese children under-five are acutely malnourished and 550,000 of these children are severely malnourished, a report by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) has begun distributing much-needed anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs to patients living with HIV in Libya, following the country’s collapse in medical services and inability to provide life-saving drugs. Full text...

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - An experimental Ebola vaccine was highly protective against the deadly virus in a major trial in Guinea, according to results published Friday in 'The Lancet'. Full text...

Zanzibar, Tanzania (PANA) - Senior staff members of the African Union (AU) on Thursday were busy on the second day of their meeting in the Tanzanian offshore island of Zanzibar to complete plans and procedures for rapid response by the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (AfricaCDC) . Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Following a major measles outbreak in Somalia, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and its partners have supported a swift delivery of 55,000 doses of measles vaccine to Kismayo along with Vitamin A supplementation to boost the immunity of some 54,000 children under the age of 10 that are expected to be vaccinated. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN General Assembly on Friday called on all 193 UN member states to fully support a new approach by the organization to tackle the cholera epidemic in Haiti. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Tanzania's leading public health research institution has confirmed presence of the mosquito-borne Zika virus in the country, according to reports in the local media on Friday. Full text...

Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The African Development Bank (AfDB) plans to finance the Port Sudan Priority Water and Sanitation (PSPWS) project in collaboration with the UK Department of International Development (DfID), the Bank said here Thursday. Full text...

Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – Resident doctors at the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) in Zambia's capital, Lusaka, have started a sit-in protest citing a wide range of unfulfilled obligations by government that have left them with no option but to resort to industrial action. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Despite major progress in the fight against malaria, the mosquito-borne disease remains an acute public health problem, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, home to 90 per cent of the world’s malaria cases, according to an annual report released by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday. Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The Rwandan government's pardon for dozens of women is seen as a move to free those of them who have been incarcerated for abortion. Full text...

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Malaria Report 2016 has revealed that children and pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa have greater access to effective malaria control. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Marking Universal Health Coverage Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) Monday has launched a new data portal to track global access to universal health coverage, including information about equity of access and where services need to be improved. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Coordinating Board has stressed the need for sustained investment, strengthened commitment, partnerships and innovation to enable more countries to accelerate the delivery of services to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A major health crisis has shut down Kenyan state-owned hospitals following a nationwide strike by nurses and doctors pressing for the implementation of a 300% pay hike. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The world will never achieve the end of AIDS without bold actions to advance the human rights of the people left furthest behind, the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) said on Friday. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) has joined other UN and international agencies in a new agreement that will lead to more environmentally and socially sustainable procurement of health commodities. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - US Global AIDS Coordinator and Special Representative for Global Health Diplomacy, Ambassador Deborah Birx, and US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues, Cathy Russell will travel to Malawi from 8-10 December to explore ways to better support the health of adolescent girls. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - New HIV infections among adolescents are projected to rise from 250,000 in 2015 to nearly 400,000 a year by 2030 if progress stalls in reaching adolescents, a report released by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned on Thursday. Full text...

Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Botswana’s President Ian Khama has implored the nation to unite in fighting the HIV scourge saying a collective effort is needed coupled with individual responsibility. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday stressed the need to stop stigma and abuse against those living with HIV/AIDS and to ensure that they receive the care, treatment and protection they are entitled to. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Ahead of World AIDS Day, marked annually ‪on 1 December‬, the World Health Organization (WHO) has released new guidelines on HIV self-testing, which aim to help millions of people know their HIV status and get treatment. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - President Omar Bashir on Friday fired Sudan National Medicines and Poisons Board chair, Mohamed Al- Hassan Imam Al-Akad, following an unprecedented increase in prices of drugs. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has been honoured with an award for promoting cooperation between China and Africa on health issues. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - A new report by the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) on Monday stated that countries are getting on the UNAIDS' Fast-Track Approach, with an additional one million people accessing treatment in just six months (January to June 2016). Full text...

N'Djamena, Chad (PANA) - Important steps have been taken by several United Nations agencies in partnership with the European Union to help tackle malnutrition in Chad, especially in accessibility, availability and use of highly nutritious food for the most vulnerable, according to a joint news release on Friday. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - To mark the 2016 edition of World Toilet Day, along with urging action to tackle the often neglected global sanitation crisis, the UN is spotlighting the impact of sanitation or lack of it on livelihoods and work environments. Full text...

Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - A team from "Healing Little Hearts", a United Kingdom-based charity, is presently in Mauritius to undertake corrective heart procedures on 22 children at the island's Cardiac Centre. The youngest patient is 18 months old. Full text...

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The world’s first malaria vaccine will be rolled out in pilot projects in sub-Saharan Africa, the UN World Health Organisation (WHO) confirmed on Thursday saying funding is now secured for the initial phase of the programme and vaccinations are due to begin in 2018. Full text...

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - With a worldwide call on everyone, everywhere to play their part in maintaining the effectiveness of antibiotics, the United Nations health agency has kicked off a week-long campaign to make antibiotic resistance a globally recognized health issue and to raise awareness of the need to protect antibiotics through appropriate use. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN on Monday said the global rate of diabetes has nearly quadrupled since 1980, with some 422 million adults living with diabetes as of 2014, which it said represents a global health risk. Full text...

Marrakech, Morocco (PANA) - The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says pneumonia and diarrhoea kill some 1.4 million children each year, mostly in middle and low-income countries, despite the fact that these illnesses are largely preventable through straightforward and cost-effective solutions. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - A UN-backed report issued on Thursday has revealed that despite a 79 per cent worldwide decrease in measles deaths between 2000 and 2015, nearly 400 children still die from the disease every day. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The UN World Health Organisation (WHO) and health partners have helped to vaccinate more than 10,000 children against measles in 2 days in internally displaced persons (IDP) camps in Nigeria's conflict-affected Borno State. Full text...

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN World Health Organization (WHO) has introduced a new prenatal care model, designed to enhance pregnancy experience for women, and reduce the risk of stillbirths and other complications. Full text...

Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritius will intends to introduce soon a National Plan of Action for Nutrition for the period 2016 to 2020, an official of the Health and Quality of Life Ministry here told PANA on Saturday. Full text...