19 march 2019 - 22:41:35
Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Cancer activist Ouma Sekolole will attempt to summit the majestic Mount Everest, the highest mountain on [...] Full text...
19 march 2019 - 11:47:05
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - About 100 women of all ages have benefited from free screening of cervical cancer and brachytherapy [...] Full text...
06 march 2019 - 11:32:10
Niamey, Niger (PANA) – Some six million children, aged between 1 and 7 years, will be vaccinated against meningitis A [...] Full text...
06 march 2019 - 06:14:44
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Congolese President Denis Sassou Nguesso on Tuesday launched a five-day national immunization campaign against measles and [...] Full text...
05 march 2019 - 05:31:51
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Shifting to renewable energy could save up to 150 million lives by the end of the [...] Full text...
15 february 2019 - 22:16:02
Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The local branch of the Francophone Press Union (UPF) of Mauritania, in collaboration with the Ministries [...] Full text...
14 february 2019 - 07:49:55
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Cancer is the third cause of death in Mauritius with 1,366 deaths in 2017 compared to [...] Full text...
13 february 2019 - 21:37:35
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – The Congolese human rights watchdog (OCDH) Wednesday in Brazzaville called for complete press freedom [...] Full text...
13 february 2019 - 16:21:35
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The South African National Editors’ Forum (SANEF) Wednesday mourned two veteran journalists who have [...] Full text...
13 february 2019 - 05:33:14
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The state of human rights and security across Mali is a “cause of grave concern”, the [...] Full text...
12 february 2019 - 11:18:12
Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - The fight against diseases in Botswana has not only been with malaria but also all diseases [...] Full text...
10 february 2019 - 19:23:44
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, (PANA) - African and world leaders on Sunday vowed never to allow terrorist elements to destabilise any country [...] Full text...
05 february 2019 - 17:10:27
Niamey, Niger (PANA) - Niger's First Lady Dr. Lala Malika Issoufou Tuesday launched a free screening of gynaecological cancer as [...] Full text...
04 february 2019 - 17:21:29
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) – Rwanda attained 93 percent coverage in immunization of young girls against the human papillomavirus (HPV) by [...] Full text...
04 february 2019 - 15:22:12
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – A total of 1,371 people died of cancer in Mauritius in 2018, PANA learnt from the [...] Full text...
03 february 2019 - 14:15:22
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Although breast cancer is usually seen as a woman’s disease, men have also a key [...] Full text...
03 february 2019 - 12:52:31
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Hundreds of people took to streets of the capital Kigali on Sunday, in a sports event [...] Full text...
31 january 2019 - 17:26:43
Gaborone, Botswana: (PANA) The Cancer Association of Botswana, reportedly failing due to lack of funds, is now looking at broadening [...] Full text...
29 january 2019 - 16:43:34
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) – The Rwandan government has approved the implementation of a strategic national expanded hepatitis C prevention [...] Full text...
29 january 2019 - 14:59:33
Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - Health authorities are repeatedly sounding the alarm in Guinea where they consider that non-communicable diseases, such [...] Full text...
28 january 2019 - 11:43:34
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Amid a growing number of global health crises—from Ebola to rapidly rising cancer rates—and a shortage [...] Full text...
22 january 2019 - 12:37:04
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - About 60 women and 30 elderly men in Bamako will, for two days from Tuesday, benefit [...] Full text...
20 january 2019 - 09:00:50
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – A week after the death of South African football legend Phil Masinga, his old [...] Full text...
13 january 2019 - 12:49:42
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa is mourning the death of local football legend Phil "Chippa" Masinga [...] Full text...
25 december 2018 - 18:38:52
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - A Beninese civil society organization devoted to protection of consumer rights, Consumer's Voice, has warned [...] Full text...
25 december 2018 - 17:50:53
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Researchers, producers and consumers have met in Bamako to share information on food-related hazards in Mali, [...] Full text...
18 december 2018 - 13:28:52
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegal is on the road to completely eradicate polio in three or four years, the director [...] Full text...
05 december 2018 - 22:39:26
Katowice, Poland (PANA) - Taking bold climate action now, could help save a million lives and a lot of money [...] Full text...
28 november 2018 - 03:04:39
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued new guidelines highlighting that better homes, invariably lead to [...] Full text...
20 november 2018 - 03:57:40
New York, US (PANA) - Until women and girls can live free of fear, violence and insecurity, the world cannot [...] Full text...
16 november 2018 - 16:04:46
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The International Forum on the Adoption of an Action Plan for the Protection of Albinos in [...] Full text...
13 november 2018 - 03:41:18
Rome, Italy (PANA) - By 2050, some five million people could die each year in Asia alone due to resistance [...] Full text...
06 november 2018 - 19:43:17
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - About 700,000 expectant mothers have benefited from free delivery, which has been in place since [...] Full text...
29 october 2018 - 21:25:33
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Air pollution is “stunting children’s brains” and affecting their health in more ways than was previously [...] Full text...
27 october 2018 - 11:51:30
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The Mauritian media this week criticised the Government of Mauritius for its silence in the murder [...] Full text...
16 october 2018 - 11:43:57
Rome, Italy (PANA) - Speakers at the global World Food Day ceremony in Rome on Tuesday called for stronger political [...] Full text...
10 october 2018 - 05:34:11
London, UK (PANA) - A new Lancet Commission report on mental health says that mental disorders are on the rise [...] Full text...
07 october 2018 - 12:25:34
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Nobel Laureate Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu is spending his 87 birthday in a Cape [...] Full text...
04 october 2018 - 15:22:48
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – One of the last two remaining Rivonia treason trialists, Andrew Mlangeni, is fighting for [...] Full text...
27 september 2018 - 19:17:26
New York, US (PANA) - “Heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes, chronic Lyme disease, depression” – just some of the illnesses [...] Full text...
27 september 2018 - 15:59:56
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Archbishop Desmond Tutu was admitted to a Cape Town hospital for unknown reasons on [...] Full text...
15 september 2018 - 06:21:35
Rome, Italy (PANA) - The globalized food system is not delivering the diets that people need for a healthy life, [...] Full text...
14 september 2018 - 11:51:33
Rome, Italy (PANA) - The UN Rotterdam Convention’s Chemicals Review Committee has recommended that four hazardous chemicals recommended should be [...] Full text...
13 september 2018 - 06:25:11
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - More than 18 million new cases of cancer are expected this year and it’s estimated that [...] Full text...
10 september 2018 - 07:02:38
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian Health and Quality of Life Minister Anwar Husnoo on Sunday launched a national prevention campaign [...] Full text...
05 september 2018 - 06:56:10
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Insufficient physical activity is a leading risk factor for non-communicable disease, negatively impacting mental health and [...] Full text...
31 august 2018 - 06:41:31
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Life expectancy across Africa has improved significantly, says a new United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) [...] Full text...
25 august 2018 - 06:52:17
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Ministers of Health and senior officials from 47 African countries will meet in Dakar, Senegal, for [...] Full text...
06 august 2018 - 09:19:12
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - A 10-day campaign against Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) was launched over the weekend by the Mauritian Health [...] Full text...
28 july 2018 - 07:39:56
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Millions of people globally who have viral hepatitis are unaware or unable to receive treatment, the [...] Full text...
16 july 2018 - 19:52:19
New York, US (PANA) - A record 123 million children were immunized globally in 2017, according to data released on [...] Full text...
05 july 2018 - 19:24:56
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - United Nations experts said on Thursday that ineffective health care is a global phenomenon which increases [...] Full text...
13 june 2018 - 11:56:26
Quatre-Bornes, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Health and Quality of Life Minister, Mr Anwar Husnoo, on Wednesday appealed to the population [...] Full text...
04 june 2018 - 10:14:04
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is on Monday joining Prime Minister António [...] Full text...
04 june 2018 - 04:58:56
Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - Medical charity, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), has lauded the move by the South African government [...] Full text...
01 june 2018 - 20:36:57
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A new report from the World Health Organization (WHO) Independent High-level Commission on Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) [...] Full text...
31 may 2018 - 19:45:16
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Two United Nations agencies are combining their expertise to counter the growing threat of extreme weather, [...] Full text...
26 may 2018 - 08:21:46
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa’s golf champion Gary Player and Irish pop star Ronan Keating have teamed [...] Full text...
25 may 2018 - 11:22:52
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Delegates to the 71st World Health Assembly in Geneva have called for stepped up action in [...] Full text...
21 may 2018 - 15:17:56
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A top government official on Monday blamed the slow down in the development of sports on [...] Full text...
18 may 2018 - 19:10:46
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - After one year in office, WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus will open the 71st World [...] Full text...
18 may 2018 - 13:34:50
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A new US$ 30 million partnership to help end cervical cancer, led by the United States [...] Full text...
17 may 2018 - 06:26:25
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - New research indicates that people who are genetically prone to being overweight have a higher risk [...] Full text...
16 may 2018 - 15:14:50
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The world’s poorest countries can gain US$ 350 billion by 2030 by scaling up investments in [...] Full text...
06 may 2018 - 04:08:39
Rome, Italy (PANA) - Soil is a finite resource, meaning its loss and degradation is not recoverable within a human [...] Full text...
02 may 2018 - 06:38:16
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Air pollution levels remain dangerously high in many parts of the world with new data released [...] Full text...
11 april 2018 - 22:38:04
New York, US (PANA) - Breastfeeding within the first hour of birth protects newborns from infections and saves lives, United [...] Full text...
12 march 2018 - 18:13:35
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta is scheduled to leave for Cuba on Tuesday for a three-day [...] Full text...
21 february 2018 - 13:17:16
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Tanzanian President John Pombe Magufuli arrived in Kampala on Wednesday to attend the 19th [...] Full text...
17 february 2018 - 05:01:04
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Bold, innovative solutions are now on the table to accelerate the prevention and control of deadly [...] Full text...
04 february 2018 - 01:31:15
Lyon, France, (PANA) – A new study published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology evaluates for the first time the cost [...] Full text...
02 february 2018 - 20:32:53
Vienna, Austria (PANA) – Millions of people suffering from cancer in developing countries still lack access to effective prevention, screening, [...] Full text...
23 january 2018 - 19:01:53
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Tuesday mourned South African Jazz legend Hugh Masekela referring to him [...] Full text...
23 january 2018 - 08:50:17
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Legendary South African musician Hugh Masekela died in the early hours of Tuesday morning [...] Full text...
20 january 2018 - 14:39:42
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) – Gambia’s First Lady, Fatoumatta Bah Barrow, on Friday pledges to work hard for the common man [...] Full text...
12 january 2018 - 19:43:30
Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) – What is believed to be the largest-ever outbreak of the bacterial disease Listeriosis – or [...] Full text...
25 december 2017 - 08:51:40
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - All of government action is needed to prevent and control the health and development impacts [...] Full text...
15 december 2017 - 18:03:30
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwanda has banned 'shisha' tobacco smoking, including sale, distribution and purchase of the product that [...] Full text...
07 december 2017 - 11:26:42
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - As the global population ages, the number of people living with dementia is expected to triple [...] Full text...
29 november 2017 - 08:00:45
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - An estimated 1 in 10 medical products circulating in low- and middle-income countries is either substandard [...] Full text...
29 november 2017 - 07:26:34
Ebène , Mauritius (PANA) - The third edition of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) - MERCK [...] Full text...
24 november 2017 - 12:42:49
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Experts in wildlife conservation from Kenya, Malawi, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda on Wednesday in Musanze, a [...] Full text...
17 november 2017 - 09:21:59
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Justice Minister Michael Masutha on Friday denied parole to Janusz Walus who nearly sparked [...] Full text...
12 november 2017 - 05:41:28
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - From smog hanging over cities to smoke inside the home, air pollution poses a major threat [...] Full text...
10 november 2017 - 20:04:27
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – Libya’s burden of non-communicable diseases (NCD) is estimated to account for more than 76% all deaths [...] Full text...
09 november 2017 - 15:31:59
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Centre (CTSC) is to train some 20 Rwandan doctors by [...] Full text...
07 november 2017 - 16:09:24
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwandan First Lady on Tuesday called on health researchers and policy makers from across Africa to [...] Full text...
20 october 2017 - 05:41:33
London, UK (PANA) - Pollution is a major cause of premature death, disability, and disease around the world, a new [...] Full text...
19 october 2017 - 20:12:31
Montevideo, Uruguay (PANA) – Global leaders have pledged to take bold action to reduce suffering from noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), which [...] Full text...
10 october 2017 - 17:45:27
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) – The United Nations health agency on Tuesday announced the establishment of a high-level global commission on [...] Full text...
09 october 2017 - 15:56:45
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South African jazz legend, Hugh Masekela, has called for privacy after confirming that he [...] Full text...
05 october 2017 - 17:23:42
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – A Cape Town court has cleared the extradition of an alleged Australian paedophile who [...] Full text...
20 september 2017 - 12:51:32
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Gambian First Lady, Fatou Bah-Barrow, has pledged her support towards the ongoing fight against Cancer and [...] Full text...
18 september 2017 - 20:59:09
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) – Millions around the globe are dying prematurely from diseases such as cancer or heart disease, the [...] Full text...
16 september 2017 - 16:38:46
New York, US (PANA) – Commemorating the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer, senior United Nations officials, [...] Full text...
03 august 2017 - 17:51:42
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Health and World Health Organization (WHO) are leading other stakeholders to create [...] Full text...
01 august 2017 - 09:11:10
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - No country in the world fully meets recommended standards for breastfeeding, according to a new report [...] Full text...
28 july 2017 - 16:48:53
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – People with albinism living in rural Tanzania continue to live in fear amid widespread [...] Full text...
19 july 2017 - 17:52:42
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) – Despite measures protecting a majority of people from tobacco-related illness and death, the tobacco industry continues [...] Full text...
12 july 2017 - 08:24:47
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Jazz legend Ray Phiri died in the early hours of Wednesday morning after being [...] Full text...
09 july 2017 - 10:38:42
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Anti-apartheid liberation hero Denis Goldberg has been admitted to a Cape Town hospital with [...] Full text...
05 july 2017 - 06:51:16
Rome, Italy (PANA) - The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on Tuesday a new United Nations global action programme [...] Full text...
29 june 2017 - 20:41:32
New York, US (PANA) – The majority of the world’s most vulnerable communities are in the Tropics, and will be [...] Full text...
28 june 2017 - 14:37:15
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - "Without an end to discrimination there would be no end to the AIDS epidemic. Everybody must [...] Full text...
26 june 2017 - 18:16:47
Paris, France (PANA) - At the annual meeting of the UN Security Management Group (SMG), featuring seven heads of UN [...] Full text...
22 june 2017 - 06:21:32
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN World Health Organisation (WHO) has underscored national actions to limit the use of artificial [...] Full text...
15 june 2017 - 13:03:02
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - The Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council (EPSCO) of the European Union (EU) on [...] Full text...
06 june 2017 - 18:34:43
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - New advice on which antibiotics to use for common infections and which to preserve for the [...] Full text...
02 june 2017 - 14:40:08
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan medical institutions have been urged to advertise their services to stop Kenyans from seeking health [...] Full text...
30 may 2017 - 09:29:22
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Action to stamp out tobacco use can help countries prevent millions of people falling ill and [...] Full text...
27 may 2017 - 05:54:57
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Bola Tinubu, Nigerian politician and National Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), on [...] Full text...
20 may 2017 - 15:23:17
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Increasing tobacco taxes to reduce demand for tobacco could generate revenue for African governments to finance [...] Full text...
20 may 2017 - 08:06:06
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The controversial discharge last Wednesday of eight members of a pro-government militia group that stormed an [...] Full text...
06 may 2017 - 08:06:03
Accra, Ghana (PANA) – Two important international celebrations this week – Workers’ Day (May Day) and the World Press Freedom [...] Full text...
05 may 2017 - 17:52:54
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) is urging drivers to kill the speed as speeding on the [...] Full text...
04 may 2017 - 09:57:23
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) will this year launch a pilot project for prequalifying biosimilar medicines, [...] Full text...
30 april 2017 - 13:45:42
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South African music legend Johnny Clegg, who is suffering from cancer, has announced that [...] Full text...
25 april 2017 - 12:23:39
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The UN World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared that Insecticide Treated Nets (ITNs), which for many [...] Full text...
21 april 2017 - 11:46:15
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - New World Health Organization (WHO) data reveal that an estimated 325 million people worldwide are living [...] Full text...
20 april 2017 - 09:58:40
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - UN World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday announced World Immunization Week from 24-30 April, which aims [...] Full text...
14 april 2017 - 14:54:34
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) has launched a report - “Ten years in public health 2007-2017” [...] Full text...
04 april 2017 - 20:37:49
New York, US (PANA) - Mali has become the first country to ratify the Kigali Amendment, a ground-breaking amendment to [...] Full text...
04 april 2017 - 06:39:56
New York, US (PANA) – The United Nations advisory body on issues related to population and development on Monday kicked [...] Full text...
03 april 2017 - 17:46:10
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Global efforts to protect the climate and the ozone layer have received a boost with the [...] Full text...
26 march 2017 - 16:52:28
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Evander Holyfield, the legendary five-time World Heavyweight Boxing Champion, will hold an exhibition boxing match with [...] Full text...
22 march 2017 - 20:52:14
New York, US (PANA) - Cancer can be a death warrant in some developing countries, spurring the UN International Atomic [...] Full text...
08 march 2017 - 05:50:15
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Two United Nations human rights experts are calling for a comprehensive new global treaty to regulate [...] Full text...
24 february 2017 - 19:29:47
New York, US (PANA) - UN human rights experts have called for strong, urgent action by governments to ensure that [...] Full text...
03 february 2017 - 19:57:35
New York, US (PANA) - Early cancer diagnosis saves lives and cuts treatment costs, particularly in developing countries where the [...] Full text...
02 february 2017 - 20:03:03
New York, US (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) said cervical cancer kills more than 250,000 women every year [...] Full text...
01 february 2017 - 22:12:31
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Not enough exercise contributes to cancer, diabetes, depression and other non-communicable diseases, according to the United [...] Full text...
27 january 2017 - 19:34:33
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - A significant number of American banks have indicated their interest to invest in Sudan as [...] Full text...
10 january 2017 - 15:56:18
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Policies to control tobacco use, including tobacco tax and price increases, can generate significant government revenues [...] Full text...
22 december 2016 - 13:23:17
Zanzibar, Tanzania (PANA) - Senior staff members of the African Union (AU) on Thursday were busy on the second day [...] Full text...
01 december 2016 - 11:45:36
Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Botswana’s President Ian Khama has implored the nation to unite in fighting the HIV scourge saying [...] Full text...
18 november 2016 - 15:25:21
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Limpho Hani, the widow of assassinated South African Communist Party (SACP) leader, Chris Hani, [...] Full text...
03 november 2016 - 17:13:47
New York, US (PANA) - Warning that millions of people die every year from preventable surgical infections, particularly in developing [...] Full text...
03 november 2016 - 15:33:14
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Apartheid-era politician Clive Derby-Lewis, who nearly sparked a full-blown race war on the eve [...] Full text...
21 october 2016 - 05:33:31
New York, US (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO), in partnership with the Coalition for Climate and Clean Air [...] Full text...
20 october 2016 - 15:52:45
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - ActionAid Zambia says it is shocked and disappointed by the rampant corruption and mismanagement of public [...] Full text...
14 october 2016 - 18:36:34
New York, US (PANA) - Five out of six children worldwide under two years old are not receiving adequate nutrition [...] Full text...
07 october 2016 - 14:53:22
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – An emotional Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu on Friday marked his 85th birthday by delivering [...] Full text...
05 october 2016 - 13:32:12
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Rio Olympics men's 30000m steeplechase winner, Conseslus Kipruto, is among the bigwigs set for the forthcoming [...] Full text...
29 september 2016 - 14:19:20
New York, US (PANA) - The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has launched a revamped global database which highlights startling [...] Full text...
27 september 2016 - 17:44:14
New York, US (PANA) - With some 6.5 million people dying annually from air pollution and 92 per cent of [...] Full text...
23 september 2016 - 15:25:15
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Hundreds of mourners on Friday paid their last respects to kwaito musician Mduduzi [...] Full text...
23 september 2016 - 10:53:56
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The embedded carbon emissions from the oil, gas, and coal in currently operating fields and mines, [...] Full text...
22 september 2016 - 11:53:28
New York, US (PANA) - The Organization of African First Ladies against HIV/AIDS (OAFLA) is partnering with UN agencies, private [...] Full text...
21 september 2016 - 15:12:46
New York, US (PANA) - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi says terrorism is the cancer of our age that breeds [...] Full text...
21 september 2016 - 13:42:25
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s daughter and the South African National Editors' Forum (SANEF) have condemned [...] Full text...
19 september 2016 - 09:11:41
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Tributes are flooding in for legendary South African musician Mandoza who died on Sunday [...] Full text...
17 september 2016 - 13:17:11
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu is back in hospital, just days after being discharged following [...] Full text...
07 september 2016 - 19:01:41
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South African liberation here Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu is recovering at a Cape Town [...] Full text...
31 august 2016 - 08:17:35
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) – The new head of the United Nations environment agency on Wednesday laid out key issues facing [...] Full text...
19 august 2016 - 06:37:45
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritius on Friday launched a human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination to prevent cervical cancer among girls as [...] Full text...
18 august 2016 - 15:10:24
New York, US (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) has named former New York Mayor and philanthropist, Michael Bloomberg, [...] Full text...
11 august 2016 - 10:48:40
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Reverend Frank Chikane, the former Director General of the Presidency, on Thursday launched a [...] Full text...
04 august 2016 - 17:39:51
Quatre-Bornes, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian Health Minister Anil Gayan on Thursday urged fathers, relatives, neighbours and health care professionals to [...] Full text...
25 july 2016 - 19:08:32
New York, US (PANA) - Ahead of World Hepatitis Day observed annually on 28 July, the World Health Organization (WHO) [...] Full text...
20 july 2016 - 08:29:26
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Daily consumption of meals with beans has reduced cases of anaemia and iron deficiency in young [...] Full text...
19 july 2016 - 06:54:57
New York, US (PANA) - Governments must make greater efforts to protect people from heart disease, cancers, diabetes and lung [...] Full text...
11 july 2016 - 21:27:40
Nairobi,Kenya (PANA) - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday rounded a four-nation Africa visit in Kenya, with a pledge [...] Full text...
09 july 2016 - 19:47:32
Paris, France (PANA) - Participants at the Second Global Conference on Health and Climate, hosted by the Government of France, [...] Full text...
21 june 2016 - 14:18:16
New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday urged everyone to embrace healthier choices and lifestyles and [...] Full text...
15 june 2016 - 18:14:02
New York, US (PANA) - An international working group of scientists convened by the World Health Organization (WHO) has concluded [...] Full text...
08 june 2016 - 06:19:45
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Stephen Okechukwu, former captain and coach of the Nigerian senior national football team, Super Eagles, is [...] Full text...
07 june 2016 - 08:21:37
Lilongwe, Malawi (PANA) - A surge in killings of people with albinism, whose body parts are used in ritual practices, [...] Full text...
12 may 2016 - 08:25:15
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - More than 80% of people living in urban areas that monitor air pollution are exposed to [...] Full text...
10 may 2016 - 15:52:47
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The FAO and WHO have released new guidelines aimed at reducing the damage done by pesticides [...] Full text...
09 may 2016 - 20:38:27
New York, US (PANA) - Laws to protect breastfeeding against the growing
multi-billion-dollar breast-milk substitute business are inadequate in most [...] Full text...
07 may 2016 - 07:37:05
Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritius will soon introduce new measures to manage waste oil in the island nation, PANA [...] Full text...
28 april 2016 - 13:58:26
New York, US (PANA) - Marking the 20th anniversary of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-BanTreaty Organization (CTBTO), UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon [...] Full text...
25 april 2016 - 17:13:08
Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Health authorities on Monday marked the World Immunisation Week which is dedicated to promoting [...] Full text...
14 april 2016 - 10:55:06
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria on Thursday dismissed an application by the [...] Full text...
05 april 2016 - 18:25:10
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The National Assembly of South Africa on Tuesday voted against removing President Jacob Zuma [...] Full text...
22 march 2016 - 15:22:49
New York, US (PANA) - UN expert on the enjoyment of human rights by persons with albinism, Ms. Ikponwosa Ero, [...] Full text...
15 march 2016 - 10:13:10
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - An estimated 12.6 million people died as a result of living or working in an unhealthy [...] Full text...
15 march 2016 - 06:45:38
Vienna, Austria (PANA) - Ahead of a special session on drugs at the United Nations General Assembly, senior United Nations [...] Full text...
11 march 2016 - 11:35:08
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Few issues have divided post-Apartheid South Africa more than the fate of two men [...] Full text...
10 march 2016 - 09:32:56
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – A Polish immigrant who nearly plunged South Africa into a full-blown race-war 23 years [...] Full text...
17 february 2016 - 18:24:19
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - UN Environmental Programme (UNEP) Executive Director Achim Steiner warned Wednesday that the destruction of the ozone [...] Full text...
04 february 2016 - 14:51:05
New York, US (PANA) - Marking World Cancer Day, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
on Thursday stressed that where a person [...] Full text...
29 january 2016 - 11:59:03
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A major new Series on breastfeeding, published in medical journal, “The Lancet”, finds that despite strong [...] Full text...
29 january 2016 - 10:04:24
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The Mauritian Health and Quality of Life Ministry will be conducting a Global Youth Tobacco Survey [...] Full text...
25 january 2016 - 15:39:55
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - UK-based controversial Kenyan preacher, Gilbert Deya, whose extradition Kenya sought unsuccessfully over the alleged 'miracle baby' [...] Full text...
13 january 2016 - 08:54:11
Beijing, China (PANA) - With rampant poaching threatening the survival of Africa’s rhinos, an all-star team of Chinese celebrities and [...] Full text...
09 december 2015 - 05:32:00
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday issued a comprehensive analysis of global health trends since [...] Full text...
03 december 2015 - 15:21:46
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - Copper concentrates containing elevated levels of arsenic imported by Konkola Copper Mine (KCM) into Zambia has [...] Full text...
03 december 2015 - 11:03:21
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Almost one third (30%) of all deaths from foodborne diseases are in children under the age [...] Full text...
26 november 2015 - 16:29:23
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The Born Free Foundation has strongly condemned the decision of the High Court in [...] Full text...
18 november 2015 - 09:18:54
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Nestlé, a transnational food and beverage company, says is involved in fighting non-communicable diseases and high [...] Full text...
06 november 2015 - 09:57:24
Rome, Italy (PANA) - Dried beans, lentils and peas – along with a myriad of their leguminous cousins – are [...] Full text...
29 october 2015 - 20:38:50
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) may have backpedaled slightly on its earlier statement relating to the [...] Full text...
26 october 2015 - 17:50:19
New York, US (PANA) - Eating red meat more, especially processed meat and
bacon, is likely to cause cancer, UN health [...] Full text...