Kigali- Rwanda (PANA) -- Rwandan health officials said Saturday that more than 90 percent of the children targeted for polio and measles vaccination in the country, turned out during the second phase of the national exercise. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Sight Savers International (SSI) have started a programme in Kenyan schools that seek to integrate visually impaired children into the regular schooling system. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- The Mozambican Education Ministry estimates that about 19,200 teachers and more than 100 senior education officials will die of the lethal disease AIDS, or of AIDS-related causes, between the years 2000 and 2010. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- The British government is providing a grant of 24 million pounds (about 35 million US dollars) to support health services in Mozambique. Full text...

Ouagadougou- Burkina Faso (PANA) -- Demonstrating the importance he attaches to the fight against the spread of AIDS in Burkina Faso, President Blaise Campaore has taken over the charge of the National Council on AIDS and Control of Sexually Transmitted Infections. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- Congo's education ministry has launched an AIDS prevention project in schools, whose objective is to mobilise the entire academic system against the pandemic, informed sources said in Brazzaville Friday. Full text...

Gaborone- Botswana (PANA) -- The department of Nursing Education has for the second time running been re-designated as a World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre, or WHOCC. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- Anglican Arch Bishop Njongonkulu Ndugane has called on the South African government to declare HIV/AIDS a national emergency. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- A cholera outbreak in the district of Mocuba in the central Mozambican province of Zambezia, that has so far claimed seven lives, is gradually coming under control, the daily Noticias reported Thursday. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- Two Benin HIV-positive patients, Denis d'Oliveira and Francois Dubal Kodo, plan a three-month campaign from October to raise public awareness on HIV/AIDS. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has in the last 12 months helped provide artificial limbs to more than 2 000 Ethiopian amputee victims of the border war with Eritrea. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenyan journalists Wednesday launched a massive mass media campaign against narcotic drugs in their country, promising to rally the support of all Kenyans, including politicians, parents and religious leaders. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritian Health minister Ashok Jugnauth and his Comoro counterpart, Attoumane Jaffar Abbas, signed Wednesday in Port Louis a health agreement to allow a maximum of 100 Comoran cardiac patients to be treated annually at Mauritian hospitals. Full text...

Niamey- Niger (PANA) -- An outbreak of cholera has killed 15 out of the 113 cases that had been recorded in Niger by Tuesday, the ministry health reported in Niamey. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Ethiopia's education ministry has earmarked two million US dollars to be used in a project to prevent the further spread of HIV/AIDS in schools. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- As a precaution against cholera, Ivorian authorities have imposed a two-month ban on the sale of water and fruit juice in the streets and schools in the country, official sources said in Abidjan Tuesday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya has embarked on a major operation to combat tsetse flies in all highly infested areas where cases of trypanosomiasis, or sleeping sickness are rampant. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The World Trade Organisation's ministerial conference, to be held 9-13 November in Doha, Qatar, will have to take a position on access to drugs for people in developing countries, according to Jamie Love's pharm policy wire. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Médecins Sans Frontières, or MSF, has called upon members of the World Trade Organization to support a proposal by developing countries to ensure that multilateral rules on intellectual property do not harm public health. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The HIV/AIDS Control Committee of Kenya's northern District of Turkana has blamed long-distance truck drivers for spreading the disease in the area through their indiscriminate sexual behaviour. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The UN Children's Fund has allocated 48. Full text...

Oshakati- Namibia (PANA) -- Eighteen Namibian police officers have completed a five-day training workshop on sexuality and reproductive health in the north-western town of Oshakati Friday. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- The Mozambican Health Ministry is working out ways to implement the African strategy to combat malaria, and particularly to minimise the mortality rate from this disease. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Over 170 hearing and deaf delegates from around the world are meeting at the second International Conference on Deaf Education called Building Bridges to Literacy, hosted by University of the Witwatersrand this weekend. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- A Benin NGO, Stop AIDS, has started an AIDS campaign focusing on changing the people's attitude towards the disease. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- More than 700 public health experts from 100 countries are expected to participate in a four-day conference in Geneva 9-12 October, on global health research funding. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- The prevalence of HIV/AIDS in rural Burundi has risen from 6 percent ten years ago to about 14 percent today compared with around 20 percent in urban centres, health authorities reported Wednesday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The Swedish government has donated vehicles worth about 250,000 US dollars to the Kenyan Health Ministry in support of the anti-HIV/AIDS crusade in the country. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- The world's most stubborn affliction, HIV/AIDS, will to kill more than 10 million people in sub-Saharan Africa by 2015 while life expectancy is expected to go down considerably and leave a dent on the development of the continent. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- An outbreak of scabies in the Malawi capital of Lilongwe has affected over 3,000 people, with children being the hardest hit, civic leaders and health officials said Wednesday. Full text...

Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) -- The Tunisian government has authorized a new type of "offshore" health clinic that would offer services to foreigners and Tunisians who previously sought medical care overseas. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- A total of 96 new cases of leprosy have so far been reported this year in the State of Khartoum, within which lies the Sudanese capital. Full text...

Abidjan- Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) -- Six persons died of cholera over the weekend in Korhogo district, 600 km north of Abidjan, bringing the death toll to 27 since the outbreak of the disease in the area three weeks ago, hospital sources said Monday. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Ghana has set up a surveillance system to monitor the emergence of a drug-resistant tuberculosis bacterium, the country's health service director, Dr Emmanuel Mensah, announced on Monday. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- After scouting around in vain for weeks for medical treatment at government hospitals in two towns, Joyce Tinarwo wound up at a traditional healer's surgery in the Zimbabwean capital of Harare as a last resort. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Working in partnership with the World Health Organisation, Kenya's health ministry has Completed plans to set up community pharmacies in an effort to improve health services nationwide. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya's National AIDS Control Council (NACC) expects to reduce the HIV\AIDS prevalence rate in the country by about 30 percent among young people in the next five years through a national control programme. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Sub-Saharan African countries, including Kenya, are facing security threats from the increasing number of HIV/AIDS cases, the National AIDS Control Council (NACC) said in Nairobi Friday. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Nurses and junior doctors in Zimbabwe Friday ended a two-month old strike for higher pay and allowances on humanitarian grounds. Full text...

Lome- Togo (PANA) -- A Cholera epidemic has killed at least seven people from the 155 cases recorded in Togo's central region over last one month, health officials said in Lome Thursday. Full text...

Kigali- Rwanda (PANA) -- Rwandan President, Paul Kagame, Wednesday invited world's leading HIV/AIDS vaccine researchers to Kigali to explore possibilities of undertaking vaccine trials in his country, official sources reported Thursday. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- Traditional healers and herbalists from five west African countries are taking part in an international fair billed as 'Herbora 2001' in Abidjan. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- State House sources in Tanzania have linked senior health and defence ministry officials to an AIDS drug scam that culminated in the expulsion of two South African nationals Wednesday. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Ethiopia is to benefit from a 1. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Norway and UNICEF on Wednesday signed a 1. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The Executive Director of the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS, Dr. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya has received a 1. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- Ebrahim Malick Samba says he will not seek a third term as World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Director for Africa. Full text...

Gaborone- Botswana (PANA) -- Veterinary authorities in Botswana have announced the successful conclusion of the first phase of a controversial tsetse fly control exercise. Full text...

Praia- Cape Verde (PANA) -- Cape Verde is currently short on yellow fever vaccines after demand rose as students prepared travel papers to go pursue university studies in Brazil. Full text...