Paris, France (PANA) – The Town Council of the city of Paris on Tuesday granted 2.5 million euro to 20 AIDS associations in Africa. Full text...

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - To combat the crippling effect of sickle cell anemia in Mali, Bamako has set up a centre for the fight against sickle cell disease (CRLD) with the primary responsibility to improve the living conditions and comfort of sickle cell patients across the country.. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) has tasked the 20-22 June UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) in Brazil to make human beings the central concern of sustainable development, as spelt out in the original Rio Declaration of 1992. Full text...

Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - Ugandan rights activists have launched a campaign to nudge the government to provide medical aid and care to children who are suffering from Nodding Syndrome in Northern Ugandan district of Kitgum, the battleground of more than two decades of war with the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has joined governments and partners from the private sector, civil society and faith-based groups to launch a sustained, global effort to end preventable child deaths. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) has launched a new Tool Kit for countries to use in protecting the rights and dignity of people with mental health conditions. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - To meet the increasing demand for blood and blood products worldwide, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has called on more people to come forward to give blood voluntarily, and regularly. Full text...

Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - A marauding hyena, feared to be rabid, have broken free from the protected Namizimu Forest in the southern lakeshore resort district of Mangochi and is on the rampage, attacking villagers. Full text...

Lyon, France (PANA) - The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), which is part of the World Health Organization (WHO), has classified diesel engine exhaust as carcinogenic to humans, based on sufficient evidence that exposure is associated with an increased risk for lung cancer. Full text...

Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The parliament in Mauritius has adopted an amendment to the criminal code, authorizing the voluntary interruption of pregnancy in the case of women who get pregnant under specific conditions. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Top UN officials have stressed the need to expand services and scale up resources to stem the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The potential for saving children’s lives is huge if proven, cost-effective interventions for pneumonia and diarrhoea can be scaled up to reach the most disadvantaged children, UNICEF says in a new report issued Friday. Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – The World Food Programme (WFP) on Thursday launched an additional food programme for 30,000 children from 6 to 24 months in Mauritania to prevent malnutrition, according to a statement from the UN agency made available to PANA. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Lagos State Governor in South West Nigeria, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, on Thursday appealed to families of the victims of Sunday’s plane crash in the city to exercise patience as the remains of the passengers will be released after "proper pathological examinations for proper identification". Full text...

Lome, Togo (PANA) - Executive Director of UNAIDS Michel Sidibé Wednesday called for the production of anti-retroviral drugs in Africa to make the life-saving medicines against AIDS accessible to patients and boost the medicines manufacturing sector on the continent. Full text...

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned against the spread of untreatable gonorrhoea, after many countries reported cases of resistance to cephalosporin antibiotics – the last treatment option against the disease. Full text...

Pointe Aux Piments, Mauritius (PANA) - The 6th International Congress on Blood Transfusion opened Monday night at Pointe Aux Piments, north of Mauritius, with the participation of 300 delegates from Africa and other parts of the world, PANA reported. Full text...

Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Gambian children face some of the greatest disparities in urban areas, the United Nations Children's Fund has said. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Top UN officials have called on governments to resist the increasingly-aggressive steps taken by the tobacco industry to undermine efforts to reduce this global scourge, which kills almost six million people every year. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The government of Lagos State in Nigeria's South-west Thursday recalled all the 788 doctors who were sacked 7 May, the local media reported. Full text...

Arusha, Tanzania (PANA) - International women’s rights group Equality Now has called on Rwandan President Paul Kagame to ensure that women in the central African country are able to access safe abortions. Full text...

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Ahead of Thursday's observance of the 2012 'World No Tobacco Day' (31 May), the World Health Organization (WHO) has urged national leaders to be extra vigilant against the increasingly aggressive attacks by the industry, which undermine policies that protect people from the harms of tobacco. Full text...

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Delegates to the just-ended 65th World Health Assembly in Geneva have requested that World Health Organisation (WHO) continues raising awareness of the problem of early marriage and adolescent pregnancy and the consequences for young women and their infants. Full text...

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The 65th World Health Assembly ended on Saturday in Geneva after adopting 21 resolutions and three decisions on a broad range of health issues. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Despite the dramatic drop in polio cases in the last few years, the threat of continued transmission due to funding and immunization gaps has driven the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) to launch an Emergency Action Plan. Full text...

Luanda, Angola (PANA) - Most of the fake drugs being brought into Angola are from China and India, according to the African country's officials. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Mobile health in Africa and the Middle East is developing quickly, but there are differences in drivers and characteristics of the 'mHealth' models employed in each of these areas, according to a new report from Pyramid Research. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The number of wild poliovirus (WPV) cases in the World Health Organization (WHO) African Region dropped from 657 in 2010 to 350 in 2011, representing a 47% decline, according to the 2011 report on “Eradicating Polio in the African Region”, released on Wednesday in Brazzaville, Congo, by the WHO Regional Office for Africa. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The appointment of the World Health Organization's Director-General and the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases are high on the agenda of the 65th World Health Assembly (WHA), which is due to hold in Geneva, Switzerland, 21-26 May. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Sudan’s Federal Ministry of Health, with assistance from The Carter Centre and Lions Clubs International Foundation, announced Thursday that the isolated desert area of Abu Hamad had stopped transmission of river blindness (onchocerciasis). Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, has said improved access to voluntary family planning would cut maternal mortality. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - UN agencies -- WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA and the World Bank -- on Wednesday released new estimates which suggest that the number of women dying of pregnancy- and childbirth-related complications has reduced by half in the last 20 years. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A newly-released World Health Statistics 2012 report has put the spotlight on the growing problem of the noncommunicable diseases burden, amid the revelation that 1 in 3 adults worldwide has raised blood pressure, a condition that causes around half of all deaths from stroke and heart disease, while 1 in 10 adults has diabetes. Full text...

Lome, Togo (PANA) - The European Union (EU) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have jointly given a grant of FCFA 655 million to Togo in support of the country's Ministry of Health plan for the 2012-2014 period. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The coordinator of the national network of laboratories in Senegal, Ahmad Iyane Sow, said on Thursday in Dakar that the biological analysis laboratories were fundamental to health systems in Africa. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), on Tuesday launched a campaign to help bring attention to the goal of ending new HIV infections Full text...

Dakar, Senegal ( PANA) - The Secretary General of the Coalition of civil society organizations for family planning in Senegal (COSC/PF), Maguette Thiandoum, declared on Monday in Dakar that social media can play a major role in repositioning family planning (FP) in Africa. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The President of the Libyan National Transition Council (NTC), Mustapha Abduljalil, said Saturday night from his hospital bed in Benghazi, that he is healthy although his hospitalization was necessary following a mild discomfort caused by fatigue and stress. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - More than 15,000 health-care facilities from 156 countries are represented at the World Health Organization’s (WHO) "SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands Initiative" by committing to improve patient safety by practicing better hand hygiene. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The time it takes to communicate a HIV test result to a patient's health facility can be dramatically reduced by using mobile phone text messaging, according to research in a special e-health theme issue of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization (WHO), published this month. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said that at least one million children are at risk of dying of malnutrition in parts of Africa’s Sahel region due to a drought crisis, and called for more resources to assist those in need. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - ECOWAS and Venezuela have agreed to take measures to implement their 2009 Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) towards the elimination of malaria in West Africa, the West African regional bloc said in a statement here Friday. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana on Thursday made history as the first African country to simultaneously introduce pneumococcal and rotavirus vaccines in its national immunization programme, in a bid to fight pneumonia and diarrheoal diseases, each of which accounts Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - ECOWAS and the Republic of Cuba have agreed new measures to revive their collaboration towards the elimination of malaria in West Africa by 2015 through a control and elimination programme. Full text...

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - The European Union (EU) has given Zimbabwe 13.5 million euros, through the Health Transition Fund (HTF), to support the country’s Ministry of Health and Children's Welfare, according to a statement from the EU here Wednesday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - On the occasion of the 2012 World Malaria Day, being observed globally 25 April, the African Regional Office of the World Health Organization (WHO) has called for a ''final push'' by African countries against the disease by putting its control and elimination at Full text...

Luanda, Angola (PANA) - Angola may start a 'pre-elimination process of malaria' in 2015 due to the reduction in the prevalence of the disease in the African country, a government official involved in the fight against malaria said. Full text...

Luanda, Angola (PANA) - The oil firm Esso Exploration Angola Limited has donated US$1.8 million for programmes aimed at combating malaria in the country. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Ahead of the observance of the 2012 World Malaria Day on 25 April, the World Health Organization (WHO) has hailed global progress in combating malaria. Full text...

Evanston, US (PANA) - In recognition of his leadership qualities and dedication to a polio-free world, the Rotary International has honoured Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, calling him "a Polio Eradication Champion". Full text...