DR Congo: Monusco chief condemns attack on Ebola health center in Butembo

20 april 2019 - 18:43:19 ASA

Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for the Democratic Republic of Congo, Leila Zerrougui, also head of the United [...] Full text...

Sensitization campaign on reproductive health launched in Mali

20 april 2019 - 16:32:28 MSA

Bamako, Mali (PANA) – The international NGO, "Save The Children", on 15-22 April in Kadiolo, Malian southern region of Sikasso, launched a sensitization programme, called [...] Full text...

Number of Alzheimer patients in Tunisia reaches 60,000

18 april 2019 - 15:42:03 MTA

Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The president of the association Alzheimer Tunisia, Leila Alouane, said that the number of Alzheimer patients in Tunisia has increased in recent [...] Full text...

Esophageal surgery campaign launched in Mali

17 april 2019 - 13:39:45 MTA

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - An esophageal surgery campaign, initiated by the Mali Hospital in Bamako, in partnership with the Chaîne de l'Espoir, a French NGO [...] Full text...

Canadian appointed head of the Brazzaville university hospital

17 april 2019 - 09:34:40 BBA

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – Canadian Sylvain Villiard has been appointed executive director of the Brazzaville university hospital (CHU), PANA learned from the Congolese ministry of [...] Full text...

New Dengue cases reported in Mauritius

16 april 2019 - 15:19:57 NA

Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Five new dengue cases have been reported since last weekend in Mauritius, including two at Cité La Cure, a suburb [...] Full text...

Guinea declares war on parallel drugs markets

16 april 2019 - 11:24:58 BBA

Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - Guinea is planning to set up a brigade for combating  the illicit sale of drugs, an official source said Tuesday in [...] Full text...

UN agency chiefs give notice of ‘a global measles crisis’

16 april 2019 - 08:26:19 AR

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) – Two UN agency heads have declared that a global measles crisis is well underway, noting a 300 percent surge in the [...] Full text...

Algeria claims to have totally eliminated malaria

15 april 2019 - 19:59:11 BBA

Algiers, Algeria (PANA) - Algeria is preparing to receive the World Health Organization (WHO) certification proving the country's total elimination of malaria, APS said on [...] Full text...

Ebola cases rising in Eastern DR Congo due to ingnorance - WHO

12 april 2019 - 22:28:03 TWA

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Reported Ebola cases have risen this week to 1,186 people affected in the North Kivu province of the Eastern Democratic Republic [...] Full text...

Two Cuban doctors kidnapped, police bodyguard killed in northern Kenya

12 april 2019 - 14:27:15 AO

  Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) –Two Cuban doctors have been kidnapped and an armed Police bodyguard shot dead during an attack in Mandera, Northeastern Kenya region bordering [...] Full text...

Mauritius launches anti-flu vaccination campaign

12 april 2019 - 08:08:51 NA

Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) -  Mauritius on Friday launched its annual vaccination campaign against seasonal influenza and health authorities advised the public to get vaccinated [...] Full text...

WHO rushes medical aid to victims of fresh clashes in Tripoli

11 april 2019 - 10:01:48 TWA

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) -  As clashes around the Libyan capital, Tripoli, continue and the number of wounded rose to hundreds, the World Health Organisation (WHO) [...] Full text...

Alcohol and tobacco abuse blamed for mortality

09 april 2019 - 19:13:07 M S

Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - The Botswana Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr Alfred Madigele, has blamed alcohol and tobacco abuse as the major cause of [...] Full text...

Moroccan medical team visits Mauritania

09 april 2019 - 14:23:59 MSA

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – A Moroccan medical team that includes several experts, staying in Mauritania from 8 to 13 April, 2019, on Monday begsn consultations [...] Full text...

Non-communicable diseases will be reduced by 25% by 2025 - Mauritian PM

09 april 2019 - 13:12:59 KND

Trianon, Mauritius (PANA) - Bemoaning that too many Mauritians suffer from non-communicable diseases, the Mauritian Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth, said on Monday that he will [...] Full text...

Cholera cases increase in cyclone-hit regions of Mozambique

09 april 2019 - 08:58:17 AR

Maputo, Mozambique (PANA) - Some 389 new cases of cholera were reported on 7 April in Mozambican regions devastated by Cyclone Idai last month, said [...] Full text...

Africa about to win the battle against polio

08 april 2019 - 15:58:58 KND

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Africa is about to win the battle to eradicate polio, the president of the Regional Commission for the Certification of Poliomyelitis [...] Full text...

Fighting AIDS starts with accurate data

08 april 2019 - 07:08:11 AR

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - United States-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) has called for leading global organisations in the fight against HIV/AIDS to focus [...] Full text...

Ebola kills more than 700 in eight months in northeast DRC

06 april 2019 - 20:04:48 MSA

  Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) – Seven new cases of confirmed cases have been recorded in the north Kivu provinces and Ituri in northeast Democratic Republic [...] Full text...

Family planning services project starts in West Africa sub-region

05 april 2019 - 10:51:59 MSA

Niamey, Niger (PANA) – A regional family planning project has been launched in the Nigerien capital, Niger, with the objective of improving access to and [...] Full text...

Cameroon to conduct free HIV/AIDS testing and care from 1 January 2020

04 april 2019 - 22:11:42 MTA

Yaoundé, Cameroon (PANA) - Cameroon's health ministry announced here Thursday there would be free rapid testing and HIV/AIDS care for all populations in public health [...] Full text...

UNAIDS Executive Director visits Congo

04 april 2019 - 11:23:48 BBA

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The Executive Director of the Joint United Nations programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), Michel Sidibé, is in Congo on a three-day working [...] Full text...

Rwanda introduces Ebola vaccine in areas with high risk of transmission

04 april 2019 - 09:55:14 TWA

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) -  In a major step forward in checking the possible Ebola virus transmission from neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to Rwanda, [...] Full text...

=Four new confirmed Ebola deaths recorded in DR Congo

03 april 2019 - 22:51:38 MTA

Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - Four new confirmed Ebola cases were reported on Tuesday in North Kivu and Ituri provinces of the DR Congo, health [...] Full text...

The major problem in fight against HIV AIDS in DR Congo is dependency – UNAIDS

03 april 2019 - 22:23:25 MTA

Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA)  - The major problem in the fight against HIV/AIDS in DR Congo is dependency, said UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé here [...] Full text...

WHO launches Cholera vaccination campaign in Mozambique

03 april 2019 - 15:19:16 TWA

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...

Two senior members of Rwanda Council of Nurses and Midwives arrested for corruption

03 april 2019 - 13:01:04 KND

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - A spokesman of the Rwanda Investigation Bureau (RIB), Modeste Mbabazi, on Tuesday confirmed the arrest of two senior officials of the [...] Full text...

Lack of basic water services in health care facilities impacts 2 billion people globally

03 april 2019 - 09:47:01 AR

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - One in four health care facilities around the world lacks basic water services, impacting over 2 billion people, according to a [...] Full text...

More than 160 suspected cases of measles registered in the Kayes region in Mali

02 april 2019 - 23:12:50 KND

Bamako, Mali PANA) - The region of Kayes in western Mali has recorded 166 suspected cases of measles, 34 of which have been confirmed, reported [...] Full text...

Taking the message home about family planning in Guinea

02 april 2019 - 11:25:51 BBA

Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - Traditions have a hard life in Guinea. Early marriages are still celebrated in spite of denunciation campaigns. Poverty, which, according to official [...] Full text...

Mozambique begins cholera vaccination in Cyclone Idai-hit regions

02 april 2019 - 08:58:00 AR

Maputo, Mozambique (PANA) – At least 1,052 cases of cholera have been recorded, including one death, in regions devastated by Cyclone Idai in Mozambique, the [...] Full text...

Niger launches m-health initiative for better management of childhood diseases

31 march 2019 - 14:56:24 MTA

Niamey, Niger (PANA) - Nigerien health authorities last week launched the pilot phase of the m-Health (mobile for Health) initiative that involves the use of [...] Full text...

Ebola cases rising in DR Congo, but WHO cites progress in community trust-building

29 march 2019 - 19:06:51 MA

Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - A rise in new cases of the deadly Ebola virus disease in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has been [...] Full text...

EAC health researchers, scientists meet in Tanzania to deliberate on key issues

27 march 2019 - 18:09:56 EBM

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Health researchers and scientists from the East Africa Community (EAC) partner states are meeting in Tanzania’s commercial capital Dar [...] Full text...

Niamey to host the Int'l Congress of Allergists

26 march 2019 - 16:57:13 KND

Niamey, Niger (PANA) - Niamey will host an International Congress of Allergists in October 2020, the President of the International Federation of Francophone Allergists, Dr. [...] Full text...

Somali health minister visits League of Arab States Hq

26 march 2019 - 09:21:44 BBA

Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The secretary-general of the League of Arab States, Ahmed Abou El-Gheit, on Monday received the Somali health and social prevention minister, [...] Full text...

Tunis to host first Tunisian-African conference on medical tourism

25 march 2019 - 18:58:31 MSA

Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunis will, on 3-5 March, host the first Tunisian-African health conference on medical tourism, under the aegis of the Tunisian ministries [...] Full text...

It’s ‘time to #EndTB’, says UN on World Tuberculosis Day

24 march 2019 - 18:28:58 AR

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Tuberculosis, or TB, is not only the world's top infectious killer, it is also the leading cause of deaths among people [...] Full text...

Medical team arrives to train and conduct cardiac operations in Libya

24 march 2019 - 15:36:44 MTA

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A medical team from the organization known as Little Heart arrived in Tripoli on Saturday to perform 60 surgical operations and [...] Full text...

Tuberculosis is priority public health concern in Burkina Faso

24 march 2019 - 12:33:12 BBA

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Tuberculosis is a priority public health concern in Burkina Faso, the health ministry said on Sunday on the occasion of [...] Full text...

TB kills at least 70 people in Tanzania daily – health minister

24 march 2019 - 12:21:24 EBM

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Prevalence of tuberculosis is still high in Tanzania, with new statistics  indicating that at least 70 people die everyday [...] Full text...

WHO reaffirms commitment to DRC as Ebola outbreak nears 1,000 cases

24 march 2019 - 08:27:06 AR

Goma, DR Congo (PANA) - As the Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) approaches 1,000 cases amid increased violence, the World Health Organization [...] Full text...

Burkina Faso doctors bring order to the health sector

22 march 2019 - 14:52:06 KND

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The National Council of the Order of Physicians of Burkina Faso on Friday moved to put order in the health [...] Full text...

SADC experts meet over medical supplies procurement guidelines

22 march 2019 - 13:50:43 EBM

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – A team of technical experts from 16 Southern African Development Community (SADC) member states are meeting in Tanzania’s commercial [...] Full text...

Cote d'Ivoire to hold national dialogue on health funding

21 march 2019 - 09:21:59 BBA

Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - A national dialogue on health funding in Côte d'Ivoire will take place from 15 to 19 April in the economic [...] Full text...

'Talking boxes' reveal unspoken epidemic of female cut in Kenya (Feature by Kennedy Abwao, PANA correspondent)

20 march 2019 - 10:05:13 AO

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – Leah Adhiambo breathes a sigh of relief. The girl-talk-session had ended successfully even though on an anti-climax. The would-be-chief guest, Amina Mohamed, [...] Full text...

Safe drinking water, sanitation, are ‘basic human rights’: UN report

20 march 2019 - 09:28:27 MA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Safe water and access to proper sanitation are essential to eradicate poverty, build peaceful societies and ensure that no one is left behind on [...] Full text...

Egypt moves to treat one million Africans infected with Hepatitis C virus

20 march 2019 - 09:15:35 BBA

Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Egypt intends to treat one million people infected with Hepatitis C virus in Africa, the adviser to the Egyptian health minister [...] Full text...

France pledges support for Congo’s health sector

19 march 2019 - 23:14:41 MSA

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – The French ambassador in Congo, Bertrand Cochery, said here Tuesday his country would strengthen its cooperation with the Central African country [...] Full text...