Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Governments in East Africa and the Great Lakes region have agreed on a common regional action plan against HIV/AIDS along the region's trunk roads. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Against the backdrop of increasing deaths from malaria, tuberculosis and AIDS, the Ethiopian medical association meeting in its 37th annual conference, has called for better access of the population to essential medicines. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- A new egg enriched with vitamin E and fatty acids essential for eye and brain development has been introduced in South Africa. Full text...

Windhoek- Namibia (PANA) -- The WHO Regional Director for Africa has provided 10,000 US dollars to fight malaria epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa. Full text...

Windhoek- Namibia (PANA) -- Namibian president Sam Nujoma Tuesday urged the country's youth to change their attitudes towards AIDS and to make use of HIV/AIDS information readily available to them. Full text...

Gbarlatuah- Liberia (PANA) -- The health of thousands of persons uprooted by war in the north of Liberia is declining, medical sources in the area said. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- A self-confessed HIV-positive Zambian man, has been sentenced to 30 months in jail for forcing a 13-year-old girl to have sex with him. Full text...

New York- UN (PANA) -- Government delegates began week-long negotiations Monday in New York on a major document whose final form would be approved in June by world leaders at a special session of the UN General Assembly giving guidance to global efforts against HIV/AIDS. Full text...

Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritius plans to invest 2. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- A teleconference on AIDS, with participants in four African capitals and Washington in the United States, will be held Wednesday and Thursday. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- The Malawi government has approved that the AIDS drug Nevirapine should be administered free of charge to HIV-positive pregnant women in the country. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- More than 2. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya's Trypanosomiasis Research Institute (Ketri) is, in conjunction with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation of America and the University of North Carolina developing new drugs to treat human African trypanosomiasis, commonly referred to as sleeping sickness. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Mental neurological disorders are expected to rise from 11 percent now to 14 percent of the world's mental disease burden by 2020, says a global survey conducted by the World Health Organisation. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritius is facing a problem of imported malaria, the Indian Ocean island-nation's health minister, Rajesh Bhagwan, said Thursday. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Excellent results have been reported following the distribution of free 'Flucanozole' medication to 200 HIV/AIDS patients in the Western Cape over the past two weeks. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- UN secretary-general Kofi Annan declared in Geneva Thursday that an international fund to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria would be a major tool for economic growth in the developing world. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Excellent results have been achieved with the distribution of free Flucanozole medication to 200 HIV/AIDS patients in the Western Cape over the past fortnight. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Responding to HIV must be a core element of development policy, said Peter Piot, the executive director of the joint UN programme on HIV/AIDS Wednesday. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The target set 10 years ago for the global elimination of leprosy as a public health problem has been attained, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and its partners announced Wednesday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Following a growing trend among Nigerian Churches to demand HIV/AIDS test certificates from prospective marriage couples, a prominent Church leader has condemned the practice in the country. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya's Laikipia West Rural Community Education Centre has been preaching the bible and urging displaced people to change sexual behaviour in a bid to prevent HIV/AIDS. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- Nine out of 10 adult Moroccans are affected by cavities and two out of every three 12-year-old children suffer from toothache, according to a recent epidemiological study. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- A new report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) projects that deaths caused by HIV/AIDS in most affected African countries will reduce the labour force by as much as 26 percent by 2020. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- The South African Local Government Association in partnership with national departments of health, provincial and local authorities is training local councillors to help combat HIV/AIDS. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- A regular South African blood donor is set to break the world record Thursday when he donates his 323rd unit of blood. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- A university woman's health project has started the processes of developing South Africa's first Sexual Rights Charter. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Norway's Norsk-Hydro Polymers firm has donated nine million pipe filters to be used by farmers and herders in Sudan's rural areas to protect themselves from Guinea worm infections. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Until anti-retroviral drugs are available in the public sector, the official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) believes the government should help to reduce their cost in the private sector and make them more accessible to the poor. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- A forum involving about 100 African pharmacists is scheduled to be held in Dakar from 18-21 June on the theme "security and accessibility of medicines in Africa. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Gro Harlem Brundtland welcomed the announcement by the United States government to contribute 200 million US dollars to a global HIV/AIDS and health fund aimed at fighting AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. Full text...

Niamey- Niger (PANA) -- Niger's religious leaders have been enjoined to add their voices to the campaign against HIV-AIDS and sexually transmissible diseases (STDs). Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- Hospitals and many health centres in Kinshasa, the Congolese capital, recorded some 138,350 cases of malaria during the first quarter of this year, an official said. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Doctors attending the 16th World Congress of Family Doctors (Wonca) in Durban on Monday announced that they would increase global efforts to eradicate the use of tobacco. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya's parliament is considering a bill that would allow importation and local manufacture of cheap generic drugs for treating AIDS sufferers, but the country has no capacity to test the efficacy of the drugs. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- South Africans on Monday began weeklong activities to show support for people living with HIV/AIDS, raise awareness and mobilise community involvement in the fight against the incurable disease. Full text...

Ouagadougou- Burkina Faso (PANA) -- French-speaking African countries have been urged to adopt and carry out a second generation surveillance strategy to stop the spread of HIV infections. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- At least 10 people have died and 42 others are admitted for treatment and observation in hospitals following an outbreak of cholera in Kenya's northern Wajir district, the Kenya news agency reported Saturday. Full text...

Washington- US (PANA) -- President Olusegun Obasanjo Friday called on all nations, businesses, foundations and individuals to join the fight against AIDS and other infectious diseases by contributing to the global AIDS fund recently proposed. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Authorities in Mauritius have established a medical disciplinary tribunal to probe allegations against public and private doctors in the country. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritius will recruit doctors from India in a bid to end the shortage which affects public health services in the island-nation. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- A South African HIV/AIDS consortium including Community AIDS Response (CARE) Friday held a placard demonstration to protest against a Johannesburg HIV Clinic which has stopped taking any new patients. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- A new report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation estimates that AIDS related diseases had killed seven million peasants in 27 of the most affected African countries since 1985. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- The European Commission has agreed to grant Benin 10. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya's National AIDS Control Council (NAC) says it needs about 14 billion Kenyan shillings (1 US dollar = 80 Ksh) to implement a five-year national strategic plan for HIV/AIDS control. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Health authorities in Harare conceded Thursday that tuberculosis was on the rise in the Zimbabwean capital due to HIV/AIDS and overcrowding. Full text...

Monrovia- Liberia (PANA) -- Health authorities in Monrovia are getting concerned about increasing resistance to chloroquine, the first line treatment for malaria. Full text...

Windhoek- Namibia (PANA) -- The Namibian capital has been chosen to host the secretariat of the "Alliance of Mayors and Municipal Leaders on HIV/AIDS," the country's news agency reported Wednesday. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- One in every four people in Benin carries the hepatitis B virus, according to a survey conducted by the National University's Health Science Faculty. Full text...

Ouagadougou- Burkina Faso (PANA) -- A meeting on generic anti-HIV/AIDS drugs has opened in Ouagadougou with the aim of discussing the possible reduction of prices of these products. Full text...