Banjul, Gambia (PANA) – Ahead of the United Nations Special Session of the General Assembly on COVID-19, on 3-4 December 2020, UNICEF and other child [...] Full text...
GENEVA, Switzerland (PANA) - The UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO) Friday called for an urgent action to avert major measles and polio epidemics [...] Full text...
Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The African Leaders for Nutrition (ALN) have unveiled a position paper calling upon African Heads of State and Government to [...] Full text...
Juba, South Sudan (PANA) - The government and other education actors in South Sudan should intensify the fight against sexual violence and child marriages as [...] Full text...
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) handed over 50 motorcycles to Congo on Friday to boost the capacities of health districts [...] Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) – The World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned on Wednesday of "an alarming decline" in the number of [...] Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Global experts in health and child welfare have again highlighted how the COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting access to routine immunization services [...] Full text...
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – This year’s Africa Vaccination Week started on Friday as the COVID-19 pandemic is causing significant disruption to vaccination efforts and to the [...] Full text...
Brazzaville, Congo PANA) – Public health systems in Africa are coming under severe strain as the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic persists, the the World Health Organization (WHO) [...] Full text...
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - A total of 3,254,425 Burkinabé children, between the ages of 9 and 59 months, were vaccinated during a campaign against [...] Full text...
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Several thousand children aged 15 to 23 months in Kayes town, capital of Kayes region in western Mali, will receive the [...] Full text...
Niamey, Niger (PANA) - Nigerien minister in charge of Livestock, Mohamed Boucha Monday launched the national campaign of free vaccination of livestock 2019-2020 edition in [...] Full text...
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) is expected to launch measles vaccination campaign in North Kivu, in eastern Democratic Republic of the [...] Full text...
Mogadishu, Somalia (PANA) - A campaign to vaccinate some 1.7 million children in Somalia was launched on Sunday by the country’s government, in partnership with [...] Full text...
Mogadishu, Somalia (PANA) - Some of the child protection approaches used by the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) could be adopted as best practices [...] Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A first batch of 400,000 doses of BCG vaccines for the prevention of the tuberculosis virus, aimed at newborns, was distributed [...] Full text...
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The Speaker of the Congolese Parliament, Isidore Mvouba, at the opening of its seventh ordinary session here Thursday announced that Congo [...] Full text...
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - An alarmingly high number of children sufferer the consequences of poor diets and a food system that is failing them, UNICEF [...] Full text...
Niamey, Niger (PANA) - More than 100 percent of children from zero to five months have been vaccinated in a campaign in Niger, the immunization [...] Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN World Health Organization’s (WHO) has said in its latest guidelines on improving nutrition that if governments boost their focus [...] Full text...
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) – DR Congo’s president, Felix Tshisekedi, has restated his commitment to make vaccination a major force for the universal health coverage [...] Full text...
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - As the Global Vaccine Action Plan (GAVP 2011-2020) nears its conclusion, a regional consultation has been held this week in Brazzaville by [...] Full text...
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) is currently mobilising experts to step up its response in Burkina Faso to help the country [...] Full text...
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - About 800,000 pregnant and lactating women, 2 million children under 5 and 5 million boys and girls under the age of [...] Full text...
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Eleven out of 100 children are not vaccinated in Benin, according to the results of the Fifth demographic and health survey [...] Full text...
Bamako, Mali (PANA) – About 548,000 people, or 2.35% of the Malian population face food insecurity and need relief assistance for survival between July and [...] Full text...
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwanda maintains an estimated immunization rate of 95 pc, as part of its national immunization campaign, the director general of the [...] Full text...
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Burkina Faso President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré will Monday launch an immunization campaign for children aged two years and beyond, [...] Full text...
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - An oral cholera vaccination campaign to protect survivors of Cyclone Idai begins Wednesday in Beira, Mozambique, the World Health Organisation (WHO) [...] Full text...
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - More than five million children, aged between nine months and 14 years, are targeted by a measles and rubella vaccination campaign [...] Full text...
Niamey, Niger (PANA) – Some six million children, aged between 1 and 7 years, will be vaccinated against meningitis A during a campaign that began [...] Full text...
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Congolese President Denis Sassou Nguesso on Tuesday launched a five-day national immunization campaign against measles and rubella targeting 2.264 million children [...] Full text...
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) – Rwanda attained 93 percent coverage in immunization of young girls against the human papillomavirus (HPV) by 2018, leading to a significant [...] Full text...
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Gambia's Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MoHSW), in partnership with the United Nation Children Fund (UNICEF) and the Expanded Program [...] Full text...
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Over the past five years, the vaccination coverage in Sub-Saharan Africa has stagnated at 72%, exposing populations to diseases avoidable with [...] Full text...
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The Congolese government wants to regulate the sale of breast milk substitutes through the adoption of a draft decree on the [...] Full text...
Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - Over 13 million children, aged between nine months and 14 years, were vaccinated against measles and rubella in 2018, thanks [...] Full text...
Niamey, Niger (PANA) – Niger’s national nutritional security policy for the period 2017-2025, launched on Saturday, will contribute to the country’s socio-economic development, by strengthening [...] Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Saturday launched a one-week national immunization campaign in Libya, with the aim to immunize [...] Full text...
Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - Working with Big Win Philanthropy and Aliko Dangote Foundation, the African Development Bank (AfDB) has unveiled a new Multi-Sectoral Nutrition [...] Full text...
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Malian Prime, Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga, on Saturday launched the 2018-2019 nationwide livestock vaccination campaign at Baguineda, about 40 km from Bamako,
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Niamey, Niger (PANA) - Aiming to improve the nutritional safety of its citizens, the Niger government on Friday adopted a National Policy for Nutritional Security [...] Full text...
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - By 2030, there will be 129 million children with stunted growth due to malnutrition, mostly born of young mothers, the International [...] Full text...
Bangui, CAR (PANA) - A medical charity is warning that children in the Central African Republic (CAR) are missing out on routine vaccinations.
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New York, US (PANA) - A record 123 million children were immunized globally in 2017, according to data released on Monday by the World Health [...] Full text...
Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - The Ivorian minister of Health and Public hygiene, Dr Raymonde Goudou-Coffie, on Tuesday officially launched the 8th African vaccination week, [...] Full text...
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The lack of access to safe maternal health services during the critical hours of childbirth remains a key barrier to national [...] Full text...
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Being vaccinated against diseases like diphtheria, measles, whooping cough, meningitis, pneumonia, yellow fever, and other potentially fatal illnesses is a commonplace [...] Full text...