Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 24 Libyan officials have completed a World Health Organization (WHO)-supervised training session on Friday to build their capacity to analyse epidemiological data on reports of the COVID-19 pandemic. The training, which lasted four days, targeted a first group of Libyan officials, the WHO Libya [...] Full text...

Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Benin is to build a high level Centre for Training and Surgical Practice, PANA learned on Tuesday from the Ministry of Health. The centre will be designed to further strengthen the offer of care and will benefit from innovative educational approaches such as realistic simulation via new [...] Full text...

Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - About 20 African journalists are currently participating in health statistics training in Lusaka, Zambia, ahead of the fifth Conference of African Ministers Responsible for Civil Registration (COM5), scheduled for Thursday in the Zambian capital. Initiated by "Vital Strategies", a global health organization with a vision that "everyone [...] Full text...

Lomé, Togo (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) has mobilized in Lomé, Togo, about 30 experts from five African countries for a workshop to analyse protection against risk in health as part of the universal health coverage.   The workshop, due to end on October 4 , aims to "strengthen national [...] Full text...

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - About 100 Malian Red Cross volunteers participated in a capacity-building workshop in Koulikoro, 70 km north-east of Bamako, from September 17 to 20, on epidemics and pandemics by the communities, at the Reference Health Centre (CSRéF). Organized by the Malian Red Cross, in collaboration with the International [...] Full text...

Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The Merck Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the eponymous pharmaceutical company, will initiate, in partnership with the National Cancer Institute in Cairo, Egypt, a Master's degree program in medical oncology for doctors from more than a dozen African countries, says a communiqué obtained on Friday [...] Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Six Libyan medical teams, made up of 34 members of the Libyan National Centre for Disease Control, have completed a training session on emergency response in Tunisia, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Saturday. The week-long training focused on emergency response and epidemics, the WHO information [...] Full text...