Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- The British NGO, Action Aid, is to grant 6 million dollars to the government of Burundi to finance several HIV/AIDS control projects in the next four years, official sources said Thursday in Bujumbura. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- The final results of the last national vaccination campaign against poliomyelitis in Burundi in August and September show a satisfactory coverage of up to 92 per cent of the targeted, health officials said. Full text...

Gaborone- Botswana (PANA) -- Following the growing incidence of anthrax exposure in the US, the Botswana Post said Thursday it was reviewing its mail handling procedures. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The 42-year-old son of a prominent Kenyan hotelier has gone to court accusing members of his family of disowning him because he has contracted the HIV virus. Full text...

Opuwo- Namibia (PANA) -- Namibia Red Cross Society has completed a study on public perceptions of reproductive health and sexually transmitted infections for developing educational tools to address the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Full text...

Huila- Angola (PANA) -- A measles outbreak has claimed over 70 lives, mainly children aged below five years, in southern Angola's Huila province, the Angolan news agency, Angop, has reported quoting health officials. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- The Western Cape government has announced that it is taking extensive precautionary measures following an anthrax scare in Cape Town, but said there was no need for the public to panic. Full text...

Kigali- Rwanda (PANA) -- Rwanda has received a donation of medical books and specialised publications from the World Health Organisation (WHO), State radio reported Wednesday. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- A Zimbabwean health official said Tuesday that HIV infection continued to rise unabated in the country, with four children being born with the incurable disease every hour. Full text...

Niamey- Niger (PANA) -- African francophone MPs, belonging to a Parliamentary Network for the fight against HIV/AIDS, have agreed at a meeting in Niamey, Niger, to mobilise efforts in their respective countries for the intensification of the campaign against the pandemic. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- The International Scientific Council for Trypanosomiasis Research and Control, the body charged by the OAU for the control of Sleeping Sickness, has warned of an impending upsurge in the disease in a number of African countries. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Malawi government Monday announced the sacking of at least 28 workers at the Queen Elizabeth Central hospital, the country's largest, following a strike now in its third week. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- A Kenyan NGO, Programme for the Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), has launched a radio talk shop dubbed "Ni Nini Kati Yetu" (Kiswahili for "what is in our midst") in furtherance of the campaign against HIV/AIDS. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- An increase in the number of deaths, mostly from tuberculosis, has been reported as a strike at Malawi's Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital enters its third week. Full text...

Niamey- Niger (PANA) -- A three-year reproductive health programme estimated at 470 million CFA francs (about 630,000) has begun in Niger to help reduce the rates of mortality as well as infant and maternal morbidity in the health district of Kollo, south of Niamey. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Malawian doctors are ignoring a generous offer for specialist medical training in the Republic of China because they do not accept mandatory screening for HIV/AIDS. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- In Burkina Faso, 3,500 children orphaned by AIDS began school this week, thanks to a pilot project supported by the National HIV/AIDS Commission, UNDP and several donors. Full text...

Geneva- Switzerland (PANA) -- The chairman of the world's leading pharmaceutical firm GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) said the creation of new public-private partnerships (PPPs) for AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis in the past few years has significantly improved prospects of finding new drugs and vaccines for curing or controlling those deadly diseases. Full text...

Niamey- Niger (PANA) -- African Francophone MPs, comprising the parliamentary network for HIV/AIDS control, have expressed commitment to mobilise national efforts against HIV/AIDS. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Social Development minister Zola Skweyiya has commended the growing number of artists and musicians who are promoting the fight in South Africa against HIV/AIDS. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Local authorities in Ethiopia have acknowledged Lions Club, an international charity association, as one of the most committed sight treatment partners in the country. Full text...

Geneva- Switzerland (PANA) -- Access to affordable drugs for the vast majority of people in developing countries may feature highly in discussions at the fourth WTO ministerial conference slated for Doha, Qatar in November, a WTO official said Thursday. 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...

New York- US (PANA) -- A third American has tested positive to anthrax, a rare but deadly bacterial infection with flu-like symptoms, that has surfaced in the country since the terrorist attacks on its cities 11 September. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has sent to the National Assembly (Parliament), a bill seeking to establish a National Agency for the Prevention and Control of AIDS (NAPCA) in the country. Full text...

Monrovia- Liberia (PANA) -- The European Union is providing Liberia with drug supplies worth 1. Full text...

Geneva- Switzerland (PANA) -- Richard Feachem, Director of the Institute for Global Health, University of California, US, has called for an increase in health research assistance from the current six billion US dollars a year to 30 billion dollars by 2015. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- Filth in urban and rural DR Congo accounts for almost 74 percent of illnesses in the country, according to a report by the Environment Secretariat. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- Mali has between 450,000 and 500,000 Visually-handicapped persons including 120,000 who are completely blind persons, the national director of health, Dr Doulaye Sacko revealed in Bamako Wednesday. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- A 60-year-old Malawian grandmother has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment with hard labour after beings found guilty of infecting an 11-year-old boy with HIV, the virus that can lead to the incurable AIDS. Full text...

Geneva- Switzerland (PANA) -- Mozambique has requested the World Health Organisation (WHO) to help the country find an adequate anti-malarial therapy to replace the well known drugs such as chloroquine to which malaria has become resistant. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- Some 325 news cases of sleeping sickness were between April and August 2001 reported in the villages of Mpouya and Bodzaba on the west bank of River Congo, according the French medical charity Medecins sans Frontieres MSF). Full text...

Geneva- Switzerland (PANA) -- Mozambican Prime Minister Pascoal Mocumbi on Tuesday called for concerted efforts to combat poverty, which aggravates the disease situation in developing countries. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- The United States Agency for International Development is to grant 11. Full text...

London- UK (PANA) -- Britain's Secretary for International Development, Clare Short has been meeting with officials of Pharmaceutical companies to discuss ways and means of making drugs more accessible to developing countries. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Virtually no new drugs are being developed for diseases that predominantly affect the poor, says Fatal Imbalance, a new report by Medecins Sans Frontieres or MSF. Full text...

Geneva- Switzerland (PANA) -- Mozambican Prime Minister Pascoal Mocumbi Tuesday said the capability of the new information and communications technologies to overcome traditional barriers of information exchange and improve networking, enhanced research capacity building in developed and developing countries. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- At least 5,000 Mauritians die of cardiovascular diseases each year, a cardiologist Dr Oomar Uteem revealed in Port-Louis on Tuesday. Full text...

Johannesburg - South Africa (PANA) -- The South African government is not commenting on GlaxoSmithKline's move Sunday to grant Aspen, the country's largest generic manufacturer, a voluntary licence to manufacture a generic version of its major anti-retrovirals, the AZT, 3TC and Combivir. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Over 1 000 people in Cape Town have demonstrated calling on the government to implement a countrywide HIV mother-to-child transmission Prevention (MTCTP) programme and develop a National Treatment and Prevention Plan to combat HIV/AIDS. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- The Head of the Poliomyelitis Control Department at the Congolese ministry of Health, Dr Stanislas Ebata-Mongo, has affirmed that the country would eradicate poliomyelitis by the year 2005, the global deadline set by the World Health Organisation (WHO). Full text...

Kigali- Rwanda (PANA) -- A meningitis outbreak has claimed 26 lives in eastern DR Congo in the last seven weeks and could spread to other regions if not contained, health officials warned in Kigali, capital of Rwanda, which shares borders with Congo. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- The Planned Parenthood Association of Zambia (PPAZ), has lost substantial financial support from the US, over the suspicion that the parent body, the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), supports abortion. Full text...

Ouagadougou- Burkina Faso (PANA) -- Development partners including the UNDP, have donated some 47. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- A paediatric surgeon has urged parents with pseudo-hermaphrodite children (children whose sex cannot be determined at birth) to report such cases early to medical authorities for correction of the defect. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Prices for HIV/AIDS drugs looked set to become more affordable in South Africa with the announcement at the weekend of two initiatives aimed at cutting the cost of the most frequently prescribed anti-retrovirals. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- The NGO "Population Services International" (PSI), said Saturday it had distributed some 33 million condoms in Benin from 1990. Full text...

Monrovia- Liberia (PANA) -- Scores of Liberians from a cross- section of the society Saturday staged a five-mile walk as part of an awareness campaign for the upcoming national immunisation days (NIDs). Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- The UN Food an Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has in a report released Saturday said that AIDS had reduced food production in Zimbabwe by as much as 50 percent in the last five years, warning that the situation would get worse in coming years. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- More than 100 soldiers from several units of Burundi's Army are currently participating in an AIDS awareness seminar, south of the country. Full text...