27 march 2024 - 14:30:05
New York, US (PANA) - While one-third of humanity faces food insecurity, an equivalent of one billion meals go to [...] Full text...
19 march 2024 - 04:47:26
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN World Health Organisation (WHO) on Monday called for a funding boost in tuberculosis (TB) [...] Full text...
18 march 2024 - 19:24:45
Washington DC, USA (PANA) - Almost a year ago, Credit Suisse, a globally systemic bank with $540 billion in assets [...] Full text...
08 march 2024 - 21:53:12
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - President of the African Development Bank Group Dr. Akinwumi Adesina has appealed to leaders in Nigeria [...] Full text...
05 march 2024 - 18:41:34
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organization’s (WHO) latest HIV Drug Resistance (HIVDR) Report tells us where drug resistance [...] Full text...
01 march 2024 - 10:24:07
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – Cervical cancer poses a significant burden in sub-Saharan Africa, with 120,000 cases annually out of the global [...] Full text...
15 february 2024 - 05:49:48
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Every dollar invested in fighting polio in the Eastern Mediterranean region yields a return of nearly [...] Full text...
01 february 2024 - 17:34:49
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Ahead of World Cancer Day, 1 February, 2024, the World Health Organization (WHO)’s cancer agency, the [...] Full text...
29 january 2024 - 11:35:26
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – The European Council on Monday approved conclusions on the 'EU Global Health Strategy: Better health for [...] Full text...
17 january 2024 - 10:55:34
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Burkina Faso's National Primary Health Care Management Agency has urged civilian medical personnel to support [...] Full text...
16 january 2024 - 05:06:15
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Monday launched a $1.5 billion emergency appeal to provide care [...] Full text...
27 december 2023 - 15:56:41
New York, US (PANA) - The world must prepare for the next pandemic and act on lessons learned from COVID-19, [...] Full text...
27 december 2023 - 06:55:45
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The past year saw significant milestones and challenges in global public health but also immense and [...] Full text...
25 december 2023 - 06:10:09
New York, US (PANA) - The General Assembly has approved a $3.59 billion budget for the United Nations for 2024, [...] Full text...
20 december 2023 - 08:56:19
Rabat, Morocco (PANA) - The World Bank’s Board of Directors has approved a new US$500 million loan aimed at improving [...] Full text...
19 december 2023 - 17:45:54
Kigali, Bridgetown, Geneva (PANA) - The Health Development Partnership for Africa and the Caribbean (HeDPAC), a new initiative to strengthen [...] Full text...
13 december 2023 - 07:46:08
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Half of the world’s population is not fully covered by essential health services and two billion people [...] Full text...
08 december 2023 - 10:20:13
Maputo, Mozambique (PANA) - Mozambique has made significant progress towards gender equality, but critical challenges remain.
It has strong laws in [...] Full text...
05 december 2023 - 09:21:14
Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (PANA) - Côte d’Ivoire’s economic performance under the International Monetary Fund (IMF) supported programme has been strong, [...] Full text...
05 december 2023 - 08:24:05
Victoria, Seychelles (PANA) - The IMF Executive Board on Monday completed the first reviews of the Seychelles Extended Arrangement under [...] Full text...
03 december 2023 - 18:00:37
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The World Bank has approved $266.5 million in IDA financing aimed at improving internet access in [...] Full text...
03 december 2023 - 13:46:08
Dubai, UAE (PANA) - UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Sunday sent a strong message to the oil and gas industry: [...] Full text...
02 december 2023 - 08:19:59
Washington, DC, United States (PANA) - The World Bank has approved a $266.5 million (in IDA financing) game-changing programme aimed [...] Full text...
01 december 2023 - 16:20:43
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Apollinaire Joachimson Kyélem de Tambèla, prime minister of Burkina Faso's transitional government, told Parliament on [...] Full text...
25 november 2023 - 07:48:13
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - The European Council on Friday approved conclusions on women and equality in the field of sports, [...] Full text...
22 november 2023 - 16:05:37
Washington DC, United States (PANA) - The World Bank and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (the [...] Full text...
21 november 2023 - 19:44:05
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - UN agencies on Tuesday issued an urgent call for action, emphasizing the severe health risks faced [...] Full text...
21 november 2023 - 15:48:36
Geneva/New York (PANA) -- Pregnant women, babies and children face extreme health risks from climate catastrophes that warrant urgent attention, [...] Full text...
21 november 2023 - 05:36:40
London, UK, (PANA) - Worldwide, 45 million children under-five are wasted, meaning they are dangerously thin for their height, and roughly one [...] Full text...
20 november 2023 - 20:34:20
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) is advancing the global fight against acute malnutrition in children under [...] Full text...
10 november 2023 - 12:09:04
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – About 26.5 million Nigerians are expected to grapple with high levels of food insecurity in 2024, [...] Full text...
06 november 2023 - 07:41:54
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Africa is not on track to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal of eradicating extreme poverty.
While many [...] Full text...
31 october 2023 - 11:22:55
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) has published its first-ever Global research agenda on health, migration and [...] Full text...
23 october 2023 - 07:46:08
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - When analysing poverty, only looking at unemployment rates will be insufficient and misleading. Instead, job quality [...] Full text...
19 october 2023 - 06:54:35
Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - A diphtheria outbreak in Guinea has killed 58 people, amid hundreds of reported cases – many [...] Full text...
12 october 2023 - 16:10:13
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Health workers are the backbone of health systems that meet the needs of their communities.
In remote [...] Full text...
06 october 2023 - 15:29:10
Washington, DC, United States (PANA) - The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has endorsed staff proposals for [...] Full text...
23 september 2023 - 05:36:18
New York, US (PANA) - Applause rang out in one of the main conference rooms at UN headquarters on Friday [...] Full text...
22 september 2023 - 05:38:51
New York, US (PANA) - World leaders on Thursday agreed to boost efforts to provide universal health coverage for all [...] Full text...
20 september 2023 - 17:53:05
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) -- The World Health Organization Wednesday welcomed a “historic” commitment shown by global leaders, at the United [...] Full text...
19 september 2023 - 05:39:33
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Over 4.5 billion people worldwide lack coverage for essential health services the UN health agency said [...] Full text...
18 september 2023 - 19:37:54
New York, US(PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank have jointly published the 2023 Universal Health [...] Full text...
17 september 2023 - 05:00:47
New York, US (PANA) - With several high-profile world leaders opting out of the UN General Assembly’s annual opening session [...] Full text...
07 september 2023 - 07:52:47
Washington DC, US (PANA) - A new report published on Thursday by the World Bank’s Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme [...] Full text...
24 august 2023 - 17:01:07
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The WHO Thursday launched the WHO Civil Society Commission and held the inaugural meeting of its [...] Full text...
23 august 2023 - 05:40:29
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is grappling with a dire humanitarian crisis fuelled by [...] Full text...
22 august 2023 - 19:16:04
Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) – The authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have targeted leaders of opposition political parties, [...] Full text...
22 august 2023 - 15:41:03
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - More people in some of the world’s poorest communities will have access to quality health products [...] Full text...
16 august 2023 - 12:57:57
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Amidst the diverse landscape of debt policy and management in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), Benin has emerged [...] Full text...
10 august 2023 - 14:14:41
Geneva, Switzrland (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) is convening the Traditional Medicine Global Summit on 17 and 18 [...] Full text...
01 august 2023 - 06:29:05
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The Government of Ethiopia and the World Bank have signed a financing agreement for the [...] Full text...
26 july 2023 - 15:33:28
Geneva, Switerland (PANA - The World Health Organization (WHO) Wednesday published the new editions of the Model Lists of Essential [...] Full text...
22 july 2023 - 06:51:29
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Access to social protection is a fundamental human right, yet a recent UN human rights report shows [...] Full text...
20 july 2023 - 06:23:47
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday expressed concern over the continuing spread [...] Full text...
20 july 2023 - 06:01:59
Auckland, New Zealand (PANA) - UN Women and world football governing body, FIFA, have come together, as the FIFA Women’s [...] Full text...
18 july 2023 - 07:42:23
Monrovia, Liberia (PANA) - The World Bank on Tuesday launched the Fourth Edition of its annual Liberia Economic Update, ‘Getting Rice [...] Full text...
17 july 2023 - 18:48:47
Geneva/New York (PANA) - Global immunization services reached 4 million more children in 2022 compared to the previous year, as [...] Full text...
10 july 2023 - 13:07:56
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Civil society organisations have highlighted the essential role of traditional, complementary and integrative health in addressing [...] Full text...
08 july 2023 - 19:35:39
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The Senegalese government on Saturday slammed the French news channel, France 24, for its "biased media coverage of [...] Full text...
24 june 2023 - 09:59:51
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The World Bank on Friday approved $100 million in International Development Association (IDA) financing to [...] Full text...
24 june 2023 - 08:05:28
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors on Friday approved US$230 million in additional financing [...] Full text...
14 june 2023 - 05:08:36
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The United Nations on Tuesday presented a somber picture of the overall war situation in the [...] Full text...
09 june 2023 - 14:29:54
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Some 40 Malian journalists Wednesday began a training workshop on election coverage and strategies for preventing [...] Full text...
08 june 2023 - 19:36:15
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - The Minister for Public Health, Hygiene and Prevention, Dr. Roger Samuel Kamba, and the World [...] Full text...
08 june 2023 - 15:57:51
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the [...] Full text...
08 june 2023 - 09:36:53
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - Labour market exclusion is at the root of poverty and vulnerability in the Middle East [...] Full text...
30 may 2023 - 14:36:18
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The security crisis in Burkina Faso since 2015 displaced thousands of people but as of [...] Full text...
29 may 2023 - 12:35:56
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – Over 500 journalists have lost their jobs since the outbreak of the fighting in Sudan on [...] Full text...
23 may 2023 - 10:40:38
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Revenues from carbon taxes and Emissions Trading Systems (ETS) have reached a record high, [...] Full text...
22 may 2023 - 16:30:17
Geneva, Swtzerland (PANA) - Although COVID-19 may no longer be a global public health emergency, countries must still strengthen response [...] Full text...
18 may 2023 - 09:59:46
Washington DC, US (PANA) - The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has completed the Second Review under [...] Full text...
16 may 2023 - 19:23:22
Rabat, Morocco (PANA) - The difference in the treatment of the political situation in Morocco and Algeria by the Agence [...] Full text...
12 may 2023 - 06:14:40
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The head of the UN World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday declared that the multi-country outbreak [...] Full text...
09 may 2023 - 05:27:47
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Global progress in reducing the premature deaths of pregnant women, mothers and babies, has flatlined for [...] Full text...
30 april 2023 - 12:05:07
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudanese Army has for the first time accused foreign quarters of being part of a [...] Full text...
25 april 2023 - 16:31:38
Geneva, Switzerland PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) Tuesday launched its Health Inequality Data Repository, the most comprehensive global [...] Full text...
24 april 2023 - 17:58:55
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - A total of 2,195,758 people, including internally displaced persons, representing about 9.9% of the population [...] Full text...
24 april 2023 - 07:12:19
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – An estimated 33 million children will need to be vaccinated in Africa between 2023 and 2025 [...] Full text...
23 april 2023 - 06:52:32
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - World Immunization Week, celebrated in the last week of April, aims to highlight the collective action [...] Full text...
18 april 2023 - 08:38:40
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) has appointed five new senior figures to its headquarters leadership team [...] Full text...
11 april 2023 - 17:30:36
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - Banking oversight was significantly strengthened after the global financial crisis, in part by requirements for [...] Full text...
06 april 2023 - 10:35:00
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - After three years of warranted policy accommodation, fiscal consolidation is underway, underpinned by robust tax collection [...] Full text...
03 april 2023 - 11:33:09
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) – The Gambian Ministry of Health has received 500,000 doses of Pfizer vaccines from Spain, representing one [...] Full text...
22 march 2023 - 16:44:36
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - In Burundi, 92% of the rural population do not have access to hand washing with soap [...] Full text...
22 march 2023 - 05:17:19
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Around 44% of the population in the African region suffer from oral diseases.
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17 march 2023 - 16:31:15
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya's Deputy Prime Minister and Acting Minister of Health in the Government of National Unity, Ramadan [...] Full text...
14 march 2023 - 13:35:19
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday released an updated WHO health workforce support and safeguards [...] Full text...
11 march 2023 - 12:52:54
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudanese government has announced that a number of its nationals, including women and children, previously [...] Full text...
09 march 2023 - 14:38:22
Geneva, Switzerland (PAMA) - Implementing sodium reduction policies could save an estimated seven million lives globally by 2030, WHO said in a [...] Full text...
08 march 2023 - 16:37:54
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudanese breathed a sigh of relief, even if temporarily, as the head of the Rapid Support [...] Full text...
06 march 2023 - 14:09:01
New York, US (PANA) - A new World Obesity Atlas report from the World Obesity Federation, published on World Obesity Day, predicts [...] Full text...
24 february 2023 - 23:55:39
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Financial services including banking, telecommunication and energy supply services have gradually resumed in Ethiopia's northern [...] Full text...
24 february 2023 - 11:20:02
Luanda, Angola (PANA) – The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has commended the Angolan authorities’ sound policies [...] Full text...
21 february 2023 - 06:18:11
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) ‒ African heads of state have agreed on key measures to revamp routine immunization across the continent [...] Full text...
18 february 2023 - 10:06:58
Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Climate-related natural disasters are becoming more frequent and severe in Mauritania, exacerbating longstanding challenges like land [...] Full text...
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Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The [...] Full text...
11 february 2023 - 22:10:38
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The Joint Committee monitoring the peace process in Ethiopia's northern region of Tigray has praised [...] Full text...
31 january 2023 - 11:50:37
Tripoli Libya (PANA) - The member of the executive board of the Union of Arab Hospitals, Dr. Ali Abu Krine, [...] Full text...
31 january 2023 - 05:17:39
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - More countries have worked to eliminate dengue, leprosy and other neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) over the [...] Full text...
19 january 2023 - 09:28:35
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritius launched on Wednesday its Country Cooperation Strategy 2023-2026 prepared by the Ministry of Health and [...] Full text...
15 january 2023 - 08:29:14
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Although electricity is critical to healthcare provision, nearly a billion people in poorer countries - one-eighth [...] Full text...
06 january 2023 - 09:39:48
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Stringent COVID-19 protocols at the Kotoka International Airport in Accra go into force on Friday under [...] Full text...
05 january 2023 - 05:18:01
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) is concerned about the COVID-19 surge in China, Director-General, Dr. Tedros [...] Full text...
04 january 2023 - 05:41:57
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana's foreign ministry has issued an advisory note to the general public on travel to China [...] Full text...
03 january 2023 - 06:01:57
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The managers of the Kotoka International Airport in Accra have tightened COVID-19 protocols at the airport [...] Full text...
02 january 2023 - 05:49:13
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana's health authorities say they will shortly announce measures to address the current threat of COVID-19, [...] Full text...
28 december 2022 - 05:31:19
New York, US (PANA) - Three years ago this month, the virus that causes COVID-19 was first detected, the UN [...] Full text...
27 december 2022 - 06:03:09
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - In 2022 the UN warned that the COVID-19 pandemic is still a cause for global concern, [...] Full text...
23 december 2022 - 10:57:51
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Thursday approved a disbursement of SDR [...] Full text...
22 december 2022 - 05:29:43
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - More girls could be getting the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, which protects against cervical cancer, following [...] Full text...
13 december 2022 - 17:06:27
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Urgent action is needed globally and locally to achieve safe and sustainably managed water, sanitation and hygiene [...] Full text...
13 december 2022 - 09:58:59
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team led by Mr. Stéphane Roudet, Mission Chief for Ghana, has [...] Full text...
09 december 2022 - 16:02:17
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A new World Health Organization (WHO) report reveals high levels of resistance in bacteria, causing life-threatening [...] Full text...
06 december 2022 - 17:46:47
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The third edition of the International Insurance Forum in Libya started on Tuesday in Tripoli under [...] Full text...
06 december 2022 - 13:41:43
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Media watchdog, Reporters Without Borders (RSF), on Tuesday condemned the suspension of Radio France Internationale [...] Full text...
06 december 2022 - 08:12:52
Balaclava, Mauritius (PANA) – The Ministry of Health and Wellness on Monday said it will institutionalise the National Health Observatory [...] Full text...
02 december 2022 - 13:40:39
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The High Authority for Communication (HAC), Mali's media regulatory body, has initiated action to ensure good [...] Full text...
01 december 2022 - 14:21:11
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - A slowdown in the progress made during the past decade against maternal and infant mortality is [...] Full text...
29 november 2022 - 05:21:10
New York, US (PANA) - Some 110,00 youth under age 19 died last year from AIDS-related causes, the UN Children’s [...] Full text...
25 november 2022 - 14:45:58
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Measles vaccination coverage has steadily declined since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health [...] Full text...
24 november 2022 - 05:07:39
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Nearly 40 million children are at risk of getting measles due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the [...] Full text...
19 november 2022 - 07:54:05
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – For Nigeria to ensure macroeconomic stability, it requires tightening across all policy levers, and stronger revenue [...] Full text...
18 november 2022 - 05:23:46
New York, US (PANA) - Ahead of World Toilet Day on 19 November, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is launching a [...] Full text...
17 november 2022 - 17:56:39
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - WHO is launching Thursday a new strategy to respond to the urgent problem of antimalarial drug [...] Full text...
17 november 2022 - 06:16:21
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Three candidate Ebola vaccines for a proposed clinical trial in Uganda should be shipped to the [...] Full text...
16 november 2022 - 05:21:48
New York, US (PANA) - The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Wednesday launched a new climate financing initiative designed to [...] Full text...
15 november 2022 - 19:51:04
New York, US (PANA) - The Day of 8 Billion, officially marked on Tuesday, is a milestone moment for human [...] Full text...
08 november 2022 - 04:50:56
Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt (PANA) - With climate-related disasters displacing more people than conflict, UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday unveiled the [...] Full text...
03 november 2022 - 20:57:58
Brazzaville, DRC(PANA) - New analysis by the the World Health Organization (WHO) has found that the number of reported disease outbreaks [...] Full text...
03 november 2022 - 16:21:35
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - A comprehensive survey study on how extremism surges and the countries it impacts in the states [...] Full text...
02 november 2022 - 07:37:06
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritius has launched the National Sexual Reproductive Health Policy 2022 and its implementation Plan 2022–2027, whose objective [...] Full text...
21 october 2022 - 14:42:56
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) -- The coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination coverage has stagnated in half of African countries, while the monthly [...] Full text...
21 october 2022 - 10:48:05
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - COVID-19 vaccination coverage has stagnated in half of African countries, while the number of doses administered [...] Full text...
20 october 2022 - 05:26:50
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The Director of the World Health Organisation (WHO) urged the international community and the media on [...] Full text...
17 october 2022 - 05:20:19
Berlin, Germany (PANA) - The UN chief on Sunday called for governments worldwide to prioritise healthcare, to make a “sustained political [...] Full text...
16 october 2022 - 07:20:56
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team and the Tunisian authorities have reached a staff-level agreement [...] Full text...
14 october 2022 - 05:42:54
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A new report from the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) and the World Meteorological Organisation [...] Full text...
11 october 2022 - 13:04:57
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan Deputy Prime Minister and Acting Health Minister, Ramadan Abu Janah, is leading the official Libyan [...] Full text...
24 september 2022 - 11:52:32
New York, US (PANA) - Senior UN officials, including Secretary-General António Guterres, took part in a High-Level event at UN [...] Full text...
19 september 2022 - 06:15:42
Rome, Italy (PANA) - School-aged children are bearing the brunt of today’s Global Food Crisis with devastating consequences for their [...] Full text...
01 september 2022 - 05:11:59
Geneva, Switzerland (PAMA) - Although COVID-19 deaths have decreased across the world, numbers could rise as northern countries head into [...] Full text...
26 august 2022 - 05:15:36
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - There have been one million COVID-19 deaths so far this year – a “tragic milestone” that [...] Full text...
24 august 2022 - 16:17:05
Lomé, Togo (PANA) - In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced on Wednesday a [...] Full text...
11 august 2022 - 18:03:39
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The African Union Observation Mission to Kenyan elections and other groups withheld comment on whether the [...] Full text...
10 august 2022 - 11:22:11
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - At some point in their life, one in three people will develop some type of neurological [...] Full text...
04 august 2022 - 17:32:37
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Healthy life expectancy among Africans living in mainly high and upper middle-income countries on the continent, [...] Full text...
02 august 2022 - 19:26:56
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Tuesday that the Greater Horn of Africa is experiencing [...] Full text...
29 july 2022 - 10:29:08
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - More than 91 million Africans live with Hepatitis B or C, which are the deadliest strains of the virus, according to a World Health [...] Full text...
28 july 2022 - 19:23:35
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The world is currently facing a new outbreak of “unexplained acute hepatitis infections” affecting children, the [...] Full text...
23 july 2022 - 05:53:55
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Although the COVID-19 vaccination rollout is the biggest and fastest in history, many people most at [...] Full text...
22 july 2022 - 14:45:23
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced on Friday its approval of Burundi’s policy response to the [...] Full text...
22 july 2022 - 05:30:17
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – The World Health Organization (WHO) has welcomed the launch by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, of the landmark [...] Full text...
20 july 2022 - 17:05:36
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Millions of refugees and migrants face poorer health outcomes than their host communities, which could jeopardize [...] Full text...
20 july 2022 - 09:36:27
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisian authorities and staff of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have made "good progress" on the [...] Full text...
16 july 2022 - 08:26:55
New York, US (PANA) - Following two years of virtual meetings due to COVID-19, the 2022 High-Level Political Forum on [...] Full text...
15 july 2022 - 19:47:46
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Official data published by UN agencies on Friday shows the largest sustained decline in childhood vaccination rates [...] Full text...
12 july 2022 - 18:25:12
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The International Development Association (IDA of the World Bank) will grant Benin additional funding of US$250 [...] Full text...
11 july 2022 - 19:42:38
New York, US (PANA) - The global population will reach eight billion on 15 November, the UN’s "World Population Prospects [...] Full text...
10 july 2022 - 07:55:34
Maputo, Mozambique (PANA) – Mozambique last week kicked off the third round of vaccination against wild poliovirus type 1 as southern [...] Full text...
09 july 2022 - 06:49:53
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The collective global response to the COVID-19 pandemic fell short in protecting the rights of refugees [...] Full text...
07 july 2022 - 20:26:06
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Social protection for rural workers “remains a dream”, according to a report launched in Geneva on Thursday [...] Full text...
26 june 2022 - 05:20:01
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – A serious shortage of health workers in Africa is undermining access to and provision of health services [...] Full text...
24 june 2022 - 08:03:15
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) – Rwanda’s real GDP growth rebounded strongly to 10.9 percent in 2021, but spillovers from the war [...] Full text...
18 june 2022 - 18:37:35
Cotonou, Benin PANA) - Benin currently has more than 35 per cent of its population vaccinated against the COVID-19 pandemic, [...] Full text...
17 june 2022 - 19:37:06
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Nearly one billion people worldwide suffer from some form of mental disorder, according to latest UN [...] Full text...
07 june 2022 - 10:28:53
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) – The World Bank has said that The Gambia came through the pandemic less impacted than many [...] Full text...
30 may 2022 - 06:18:11
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – The Sudanese military rulers have lifted the state of emergency imposed throughout the country on 25 [...] Full text...
28 may 2022 - 07:48:06
New York, US (PANA) - More countries must “think resilience” and urgently adopt and improve early warning systems to reduce [...] Full text...
23 may 2022 - 19:52:25
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Journalists and heads of sports services from some 20 African countries, including Mali, are taking from [...] Full text...
23 may 2022 - 05:25:29
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) told global health Ministers on Sunday that although [...] Full text...
20 may 2022 - 18:20:52
-Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) has indicated in its latest comprehensive set of World Health Statistics to [...] Full text...
16 may 2022 - 12:00:03
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The rate of COVID-19 infection in Libya last week averaged six cases per day, seen as [...] Full text...
06 may 2022 - 16:19:37
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The humanitarian situation in Metekel zone in Benishangul Gumuz regional state remains complex requiring an [...] Full text...
05 may 2022 - 14:21:25
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Gambia's ministry of Health, in collaboration with its partners, has announced a countrywide coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination [...] Full text...
29 april 2022 - 05:42:37
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – Africa is witnessing a surge in outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases over the past year, the UN World [...] Full text...
26 april 2022 - 06:06:49
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity (GNU), Abdelhamid Al-Dbaiba, has affirmed that [...] Full text...
20 april 2022 - 13:09:13
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Several refugees from sub-Saharan countries have been taking part in a sit-in in front of the [...] Full text...
12 april 2022 - 16:46:57
Acca, Ghana, Switzerland (PANA) - The Worrld Health Organization (WHO)Tuesday welcomed the establishment of a new Heads of State and [...] Full text...
12 april 2022 - 15:03:57
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya has committed to the expansion of healthcare for all under its universal health plan, emphasising [...] Full text...
09 april 2022 - 05:22:10
New York, US (PAA) - Governments and pharmaceutical companies need to work together in a better way, to deliver vaccines [...] Full text...
04 april 2022 - 10:51:07
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Almost the entire global population (99%) breathes air that exceeds WHO air quality limits, and threatens [...] Full text...
31 march 2022 - 04:56:28
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A third of the world’s population has yet to receive a single dose of COVID-19 vaccine, [...] Full text...
25 march 2022 - 06:13:09
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) is cautioning African countries as they curtail COVID-19 surveillance and quarantine [...] Full text...
23 march 2022 - 15:57:23
Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire (PANA)- Professor Benedict Oramah, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), on [...] Full text...
23 march 2022 - 14:13:00
Geneva, Switzerland US (PANA) - The UN set an ambitious five-year deadline on Wednesday for countries to ensure that citizens [...] Full text...
22 march 2022 - 12:09:49
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Japan has provided US$2.5 million to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to support The Gambian [...] Full text...
22 march 2022 - 06:43:01
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Africa’s COVID-19 vaccine uptake rose by 15% between January and February as several countries embarked on [...] Full text...
15 march 2022 - 05:59:01
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Although cancer care has improved significantly in many African countries over the past decade, challenges in [...] Full text...
11 march 2022 - 13:22:16
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The Tunisian Ministry of Health announced on Friday it had recorded three new deaths linked to [...] Full text...
26 february 2022 - 00:04:21
New York, US (PANA) – Cameroonian broadcast journalist, Michel Lobé Ewané, has been named a Board member of the New [...] Full text...
23 february 2022 - 14:27:26
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The latest situation report on the response to the coronavirus (COVID-19 pandemic produced jointly by the [...] Full text...
20 february 2022 - 11:54:37
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - The UN World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced that six African countries will be the first [...] Full text...
18 february 2022 - 21:05:38
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - COVID-19 Immunization campaign, targeting mobile communities along Gambia-Senegal border, has vaccinated over 1,500 persons, according to [...] Full text...
18 february 2022 - 20:56:00
Banjul, Gambia (PANA)- Gambian President Adama Barrow, says economic independence must be linked to political independence within a social context, [...] Full text...
18 february 2022 - 15:24:34
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Burundi has recorded in the last 24 hours 21 new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) in eight [...] Full text...