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Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The regional office of the United Nations Fund for Women (UNIFEM) in Dakar, Tuesday started a "Gender HIV/AIDS" programme, which covers five countries in the region, within the framework of the Pan-African women's activities. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- At least 60 delegates are attending a sub-regional workshop in Cotonou, whose aim is to reduce the transmission of HIV/AIDS within the Abidjan- Lagos corridor. Full text...

Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nurses in Nigerian government hospitals Monday called off a three-week strike they had launched to press for higher pay. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya's Aids Counselling and Support services (TACASS), a Nairobi-based NGO, has urged for new ways to combating HIV/AIDS, after observing that there were no signs the scourge was abating despite the huge sums of money spent to curb its spread. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- Seven Congolese children aged between 10 months and 7 years and suffering from serious cardiovascular malformations have recovered following surgery in Israel. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- A health expert in Zambia Monday in Lusaka called for effective implementation of programmes targeting young men in fighting HIV/AIDS. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The UN Secretary-General's special envoy on HIV/AIDS has hailed Nigeria's efforts at combating the disease, saying such efforts had not been matched by any other African country. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- A cholera epidemic that erupted few weeks ago in Cote d'Ivoire has already killed 64 of the 597 persons infected by the virus, a medical source confirmed in Abidjan. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- The West African nations of Nigeria, Ghana, Benin and Cote d'Ivoire have decided to join efforts to effectively control AIDS by setting up a health corridor at their respective borders. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- People living with HIV/AIDS in Addis Ababa Sunday threatened to stage a protest march in the Ethiopian capital to publicly express disappointment over the government's delay in providing medicines that prolong the lives of persons living with the deadly virus. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- An attack on one of Nigeria's foremost hospitals, by hoodlums protesting a patient's death, left a staff nurse in a coma, while several hospital equipment were damaged, the News Agency of Nigeria reported Saturday. Full text...

Nakuru- Kenya (PANA) -- The World Health Organisation (WHO) Saturday said that it has set aside 700,000 US dollars to assist in the formulation and implementation of malaria control activities in Kenya. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- South Africa's Public Works minister Stella Sicau this week confirmed that she was concocting traditional medicine to treat HIV/AIDS sufferers. Full text...

Windhoek- Namibia (PANA) -- Namibian NGO, Catholic AIDS Action, is to host an AIDS conference in the Afrikaans language, the first of its kind in the country. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- Malian health authorities have announced new measures to safeguard the quality of dairy products production, sales and consumption, in the country. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Ghana has completed clinical tests on HIV/AIDS herbal preparations, Nana Offei Agyen-Tutu III, Head of the Traditional and Alternative Medicines Directorate (TAMD) of Health Ministry, said Thursday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- A Nairobi-based organisation, ATCnet, has launched an Internet database on the African health and HIV/AIDS crisis. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- The United Kingdom's Department for International Development (DFID), in consultation with the joint UNAIDS programme on HIV-AIDS, Thursday awarded a contract worth more than 23 million pounds to Action Aid in support of the international partnership against Aids in Africa. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- Sex workers will be among participants of a three-day workshop on planning programmes to reduce HIV/AIDS transmission in the Abidjan-Lagos migration corridor. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- Immunisation teams have been dispatched to Cote d'Ivoire's western forest region following an outbreak of yellow fever, the country's health minister, Raymond Abouo N'dori, said Thursday. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- Medecins sans Frontieres (Belgium), in collaboration with the health ministry in Kinshasa, has launched an immunisation campaign against measles in the Kabalo district in the Congolese province of Katanga. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's increasingly serious fight against HIV/AIDS pandemic is set to move to a crucial stage with the scheduled start of the government-supervised use of anti-retroviral drugs in the country from September. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Junior doctors and nurses at government hospitals and other medical institutions in Zimbabwe Wednesday began an indefinite strike to press demands for salary increases and better working conditions. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- Poverty reduction and improvement of women's reproductive health are among components of an agreement signed by Congo and the UN Population Fund. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- A training-of-trainers (TOT) course on prevention against HIV/AIDS in underway in Asmara for personnel of the UN Mission to Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) and members of the Eritrean Defence Force. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- Medical authorities in Bujumbura Tuesday confirmed plans to vaccinate some 1. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- The rate of HIV prevalence among blood donors in Cote d'Ivoire has dropped from 8 percent to 0. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Former president Nelson Mandela has been diagnosed with microscopic prostate cancer and is to undergo a seven-week radiotherapy course with curative intent, a reliable source said Tuesday. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- The first phase in a four- country synchronised poliomyelitis immunisation campaign organised 5-9 July in Angola, Congo, DR Congo and Gabon against has reportedly been very successful. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- Participants from 20 countries in central and western Africa are Monday attending a regional workshop on mother to child HIV/AIDS transmission in Abidjan, the Ivorian capital. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- WHO regional director for Africa Ebrahim Samba has exhorted African leaders to honour an undertaking to allot at least 15 per cent of their national budgets to the health sector. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The WHO Regional Director for Africa, Ebrahim Samba, has expressed optimistic at the "enormous benefit" that Africa could derive from the 10 billion-US-dollar Health Fund, proposed at the recent Special Session of the UN Assembly General in New York. Full text...

Ouagadougou- Burkina Faso (PANA) -- A national workshop on a plan of action against HIV/AIDS wound up in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso this weekend. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's fight against HIV/AIDS has received a boost with the commissioning on Saturday of the country's first national HIV/AIDS reference laboratory by Health Minister Alphonsus Nwosu in Lagos this weekend. Full text...

Freetown- Sierra Leone (PANA) -- Junior medical doctors in Sierra Leone government-run hospitals are threatening to go on strike unless action is taken to improve their wages and working environment. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Ghana's health ministry plans to establish a traditional medical school where people can be trained to become government approved herbal practitioners, Health Minister Richard Anane announced Friday. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- The head of the Traditional and Alternative Medicines Directorate at the Ministry of Health, Nana Offei Agyen-Tutu III, on Friday called for education of traditional healers about HIV/AIDS. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Humanitarian associations and government have finally begun the HIV/AIDS education of disabled youths, a long-ignored segment of the population and high-profile anti-AIDS campaigns. Full text...

Praia- Cape Verde (PANA) -- Authorities in Cape Verde have created an AIDS control co-ordinating committee headed by Prime minister Jose Maria Neves, official sources said in Praia Friday. Full text...

Kigali- Rwanda (PANA) -- The UN Secretary General's Special Envoy on HIV/Aids, Ambassador Stephen Lewis, Friday commended efforts being made by Rwanda to combat the spread of the disease. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- Fifty women undertook a daylong workshop Thursday to discuss ways through which they could help reduce HIV/AIDS prevalence in the country. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- An official of the National AIDS Control Programme (NACP) in Tanzania has expressed optimism over the decline OF HIV/AIDS in some parts of the country. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Zwelinzima Vavi, General Secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), was part of a delegation of international trade unionists who Thursday discussed the HIV/AIDS crisis with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) said they hoped to work together to ease the impact of AIDS on rural poverty and insecure livelihoods through joint efforts in promoting sustainable rural development. Full text...

Monrovia- Liberia (PANA) -- Liberian President Charles Taylor has called for the provision of affordable anti-AIDS drugs for sufferers of the disease in Liberia. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Health authorities in Khartoum have begun using 42 bicycles donated by the Sudan's Parliament to distribute TB drugs to patients. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Following the decision by national government on the prevention of mother-to-child HIV/AIDS transmission, the Gauteng provincial government has launched two pilot sites. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- An NGO coordinating a network on HIV/AIDS in Sudan has resorted to carnivals and street shows to raise public awareness about the pandemic. Full text...

Inhambane- Mozambique (PANA) -- Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano on Tuesday stressed the need for a careful assessment of the impact of current policies and actions for the struggle against the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Full text...