New York- UN (PANA) -- Doctors Without Borders, a leading international charity organisation of medical practitioners, has decried the general lack of commitment to treatment of HIV/AIDS patients by delegations at the ongoing special session of the UN General Assembly on AIDS. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Hundreds of young people from various organisations and institutions marched through Maputo on Tuesday to protest against the trafficking and consumption of illegal drugs in the country. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- At the 4th international congress on medical progress and quality of life in the 21st Century, UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura last Monday decried unequal access to medical care, and stressed his organisation's role in education on AIDS prevention. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- South Africans Tuesday marked International Day Against Drug Abuse and Trafficking, with a number of events, including the opening of a multi-purpose sports centre in Soweto. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- South Africa's opposition Democratic Alliance party has expressed disappointment that President Thabo Mbeki will not attend the UN General Assembly session on AIDS under way in New York. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The Pfizer Foundation has plans to fund a study in Uganda to determine which preventive measures have been most effective in curbing HIV infection. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- UNDP Administrator Mark Malloch Brown has urged world leaders to use their full capacity to do more to tackle the alarming spread of HIV/AIDS. Full text...

Kaolack- Senegal (PANA) -- A surgeon at the El Hadj Ibrahima Niass regional hospital in Kaolack, Medoune Thiongane, was arrested and detained over the week-end for his negligence that led to the death of a patient, police sources said. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenyan authorities have dismissed as "baseless and inaccurate" a report, attributed to the US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW), alleging that some one million AIDS orphans in the east African nation were neglected and did not receive adequate protection from the state. Full text...

New York- UN (PANA) -- Fifty-eight countries, 40 of them from Africa, have expressed interest in gaining access to lower-priced drugs for the treatment of HIV/AIDS and opportunistic diseases, UNAIDS, the UN lead agency on AIDS, has announced. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Health authorities in Dakar Monday said some 232 Senegalese citizens living with the AIDS virus benefit from anti-retroviral treatment. Full text...

New York- USA (PANA) -- Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade affirmed Monday that his country would bring in its experience and the expertise of its researchers to beef up global efforts at containing HIV/AIDS. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Some 30 health professionals from 17 Central and West African countries, Monday began a laboratory workshop on yellow fever diagnosis, in the Senegalese capital of Dakar. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Some 40 sub-Saharan countries are among 58 countries worldwide that have expressed interest in gaining access to lower-price drugs - including treatments for opportunistic infections and antiretroviral therapy, the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS, or UNAIDS, said Monday. 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...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- A five-day inter-state workshop to train laboratory technicians in the diagnosis of yellow fever opened Monday at the Pasteur Institute in Dakar, WHO country office in Dakar said in a press release. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Doctors, who at the weekend operated on a 13-year-old South African boy suffering from a rare disease, Monday expressed caution over his successful recovery. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang is leading the South African delegation to the special UN General Assembly session on AIDS, which begins Monday in New York. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- Second Vice-President Mathias Sinamenye, is leading Burundi's delegation to the UN General Assembly's Special Session on AIDS, which opens in New York Monday. Full text...

Bujumbura (PANA) -- Second Vice-President Mathias Sinamenye, is leading Burundi's delegation to the UN General Assembly's Special Session on AIDS, which opens in New York Monday. Full text...

New York- United States (PANA) -- With 17 of its Heads of State and government scheduled to attend the UN General Assembly special session on HIV/AIDS, Africa would have the strongest representation at the three-day event opening Monday in New York. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- Benin and the World Bank have signed a financial agreement for the disbursement of 120 million francs CFA (1 US dollar = 750 FCFA) destined for HIV/AIDS NGOs working in rural areas. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- A high-level delegation led by Planning minister Bruno Amoussou, left Benin Saturday for New York to attend the UN General Assembly's special session on HIV/AIDS billed for 25-27 June. Full text...

Gaborone- Botswana (PANA) -- Botswana government could face court action over an alleged breach of contract with 15 nurses it recruited from the Caribbean two years ago. Full text...

Niamey- Niger (PANA) -- A nationwide anti-polio immunisation campaign started Friday in Niger with health workers striving to meet the national deadline for wiping the disease out of the country. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Some 50 African medical experts will attend a three-day training session on the prescription of anti- retrovirals (ARV) starting Monday in Dakar, the Senegalese News Agency (APS) reported Friday. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- Health authorities in Burundi said malaria is the country's "most serious public health problem," killing about 32 percent of the population. Full text...

Praia- Cape Verde (PANA) -- Health authorities in Cape Verde have started developing a national plan to control HIV/AIDS for the period 2002-2006, official sources said. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi last evening left for New York, to attend the 26 session of the UN General Assembly on HIV/AIDS, slated for 25-27 June. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Mozambican Prime Minister Pascoal Mocumbi has warned that unless political leaders deal frankly with questions of adolescent sexuality, there can be little hope of stopping the spread of the lethal disease AIDS in Africa. Full text...

Windhoek- Namibia (PANA) -- Aids is no longer a health issue alone, but indeed a developmental issue, the director of Namibian College of Open Learning (NAMCOL), Frances van Wyk, said Thursday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenyan parliamentarians were in uproar Thursday following revelations that the government refused a free offer of drugs to curb mother-to-child infections in HIV positive women. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- Six Congolese children with heart problems have been flown to Tel Aviv for medical treatment, financed by the Israeli government, official sources said in Kinshasa Thursday. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Ghana's Trade and Industry Ministry Thursday announced a temporary ban on the importation of beef and beef products from Portugal, Belgium and the Netherlands. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- At least 700 people die each year in Mauritius from diseases associated with tobacco consumption, Health Minister Ashok Jugnauth disclosed said Thursday. Full text...

Moroni- Comoros (PANA) -- As countries prepare for the AIDS conference in New York, Comoros (to be represented by Prime Minister Hamada Madi Bolero) does not appear to shown much interest in the fight against the pandemic. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Two UN agencies Thursday donated over 257,000 US dollars worth of equipment to Kenya's health sector in a bid to strengthen its services throughout the country. Full text...

Windhoek- Namibia (PANA) -- The UN General Assembly will on Thursday convene a special session on HIV/AIDS in New York, USA. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- If government censors get their way at next week's UN conference on HIV/AIDS, the denial and discrimination that have helped spread the disease will continue unabated, Human Rights Watch charged Wednesday. Full text...

Monrovia- Liberia (PANA) -- The World Health Organisation Wednesday warned that "bloody" diarrhoea and cholera cases might increase in Liberia during this rainy season. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- Cotonou teaching hospital's paediatric ward accounted for 16,071 out of the 25,307 cases HIV/AIDS among children born in Benin's economic capital. Full text...

Bissau- Guinea Bissau (PANA) -- A score of Cubans doctors recruited to work in Guinea Bissau were on Tuesday introduced to the country's National Assembly. Full text...

Niamey- Niger (PANA) -- Niger's public and private radio journalists Tuesday underwent a day-long training programme to help them improve their knowledge of the HIV/AIDS. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- In a move expected to be a boon to Sub-Saharan Africa where infant mortality rates continue on the rise, the World Health Organisation (WHO) in collaboration with the UNICEF have announced a new initiative designed to halve deaths through measles by 2005. Full text...

Conakry- Guinea (PANA) -- Some twenty NGOs in Conakry, Guinea have joint ranks to fight HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases in the country. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- A Sudanese anaesthetist doctor has questioned the safety measures followed in the country's surgical wards with respect to the drugs and apparatus used. Full text...

Praia- Cape Verde (PANA) -- Health authorities in Cape Verde say their general health objective is to improve access and health care for the population, increase the level and efficiency of health services and reduce the rate of infant and maternal mortality. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- A seven-year-old Russian child has been given the chance of leading a normal life after undergoing extensive heart surgery in Cape Town. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia, (PANA) -- The World Health Organisation (WHO) has estimated its programmes in Ethiopia for 2000-2001 at more than 24. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia, (PANA) -- The World Health Organisation (WHO) Tuesday said it spent over 24. Full text...