Democratic Republic of the Congo declares end of 16th Ebola outbreak
01 december 2025 - 15:27:37Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - The Democratic Republic of the Congo Monday declared the end of the Ebola virus disease outbreak [...] Full text...
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Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - The Democratic Republic of the Congo Monday declared the end of the Ebola virus disease outbreak [...] Full text...
WHO issues global guideline on the use of GLP-1 medicines in treating obesity
01 december 2025 - 14:55:49Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - To address the growing global health challenge of obesity, which affects more than 1 billion people, [...] Full text...
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DRC launches drive to vaccinate 62 million children and adolescents against measles and rubella
27 november 2025 - 10:29:46Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - The Democratic Republic of the Congo on Thursday launched a nationwide vaccination campaign aiming to protect [...] Full text...
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Malaria vaccine price cut set to protect 7 million more children by 2030
24 november 2025 - 05:39:17New York, US (PANA) - Vaccine alliance Gavi and children’s agency UNICEF have struck a new pricing deal that will [...] Full text...
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One in five children living in poverty in developing countries
20 november 2025 - 16:24:56New York, US (PANA) - At least 417 million children — more than one in five — living in low- [...] Full text...
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UN calls for legal safeguards for AI in healthcare
19 november 2025 - 16:35:22Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Use of artificial intelligence (AI) is accelerating in healthcare – but basic legal safety nets that [...] Full text...
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Cabo Verde, Mauritius and Seychelles eliminate measles and rubella
18 november 2025 - 07:34:37Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - In a significant public health achievement, Cabo Verde, Mauritius and Seychelles have eliminated measles and rubella, [...] Full text...
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Healing the hidden wounds of childbirth (By UN News)
16 november 2025 - 07:17:15Mogadishu, Somalia (PANA) - In Somalia, where six out of ten births take place without a doctor, childbirth is often [...] Full text...
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Ethiopia: UN supports response to potentially deadly virus outbreak
13 november 2025 - 20:08:26Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) is supporting Ethiopia as the country faces a suspected viral haemorraghic [...] Full text...
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Ethiopia reports suspected viral haemorrhagic fever outbreak
13 november 2025 - 19:49:42Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Health authorities in Ethiopia are carrying out further investigations and ramping up response after suspected [...] Full text...
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Protecting lives in a warming world: Health takes centre stage at COP30
13 november 2025 - 18:50:42Belém, Brazil (PANA) - Hailed by Brazil as “a crucial moment to demonstrate the strength of the health sector in [...] Full text...
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Ethiopia: UN supports response to potentially deadly virus outbreak
13 november 2025 - 17:17:03Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) is supporting Ethiopia as the country faces a suspected viral haemorraghic [...] Full text...
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TB cases fall for first time since pandemic
13 november 2025 - 08:28:50Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Tuberculosis, or TB, remains one of the world’s deadliest infectious killers, claiming over 1.2 million lives [...] Full text...
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Millions of lives at risk, warn UN food agencies, as hunger crisis worsens
13 november 2025 - 07:03:40Rome, Italy (PANA) - The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and World Food Programme (WFP) warn of a major [...] Full text...
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Hurricane Melissa: Relief efforts intensify as damage across Caribbean grows
12 november 2025 - 16:21:26Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Two weeks after Hurricane Melissa tore through the Caribbean, governments and aid agencies are still struggling [...] Full text...
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Egypt becomes seventh country in eastern Mediterranean region to eliminate trachoma as a public health problem
12 november 2025 - 14:08:00Cairo, Egypt, (PANA) – The World Health Organisation (WHO )Wednesday announced that Egypt has successfully eliminated trachoma as a public [...] Full text...
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Battlefields to wastelands: UN warns conflicts are destroying ecosystems worldwide
07 november 2025 - 07:22:37New York, US (PANA) - From Gaza to Ukraine and beyond, conflict has caused widespread death and destruction, but it [...] Full text...
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Mind over machine: UN urges ethical guardrails for brain tech revolution
06 november 2025 - 13:43:42Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - As wearable devices begin to tap into our mental states, UN experts warn that without ethical [...] Full text...
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Rift Valley fever- Mauritania and Senegal: Situation at a glance
05 november 2025 - 19:09:42Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Between 20 September and 30 October 2025, a total of 404 confirmed human cases of Rift [...] Full text...
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Catch-up immunization campaign ‘a lifeline’ for Gaza’s children
05 november 2025 - 17:00:05Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A campaign for routine immunization, nutrition, and growth monitoring will be launched in the Gaza Strip [...] Full text...
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Only 5 per cent of European 7 to 9-year-olds eat enough fruit and vegetables
05 november 2025 - 07:44:30Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Only five per cent of children aged seven to nine across Europe eat enough fruit and [...] Full text...
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Madagascar hunger crisis deepens amid drought, disease, UN warns
05 november 2025 - 07:27:18New York, US (PANA) - Madagascar is facing a worsening humanitarian emergency as drought, cyclones and disease outbreaks devastate communities [...] Full text...
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WHO calls for sustainable health financing
04 november 2025 - 07:55:48Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Monday issued new recommendations aimed at helping countries mitigate the [...] Full text...
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Surviving the next pandemic could depend on where you live
04 november 2025 - 07:44:14New York, US (PANA) - A new global report warns that inequality is increasing the world’s vulnerability to pandemics, making [...] Full text...
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Africa CDC mobilises emergency public-health response after Sudan hospital attack
01 november 2025 - 17:35:18Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) is dispatching critical medical commodities and [...] Full text...
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Caribbean nations receive life-saving support following devastation of Hurricane Melissa
31 october 2025 - 19:09:20Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - As the Caribbean reels from the devastating impact of Hurricane Melissa, UN humanitarian agencies are stepping [...] Full text...
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IOM steps up Ebola and mpox preparedness across Africa
28 october 2025 - 05:20:08Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) is scaling up its health response across Africa, responding swiftly to [...] Full text...
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Nearly one million affected by South Sudan floods
25 october 2025 - 05:59:39Juba, South Sudan (PANA) - Nearly one million people have been impacted by devastating floods in South Sudan, the Office [...] Full text...
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‘Let's finish the job’ and end polio: WHO
25 october 2025 - 05:58:17Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Thirty-five years ago, polio, a highly infectious viral disease, paralysed around 350,000 children per year. Following [...] Full text...
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National poliovirus sequencing capacity enhances Cameroon’s outbreak response - WHO
24 october 2025 - 09:36:29Yaounde, Cameroon (PANA) - For the first time ever, a circulating variant poliovirus type 3 (cVDPV3) was fully sequenced in [...] Full text...
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Over one million return to Sudan's capital amid fragile recovery
22 october 2025 - 07:36:42Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - More than a million people have returned to Sudan’s war-ravaged capital in the past ten months, [...] Full text...
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UN aid coordination office warns of health crisis in eastern DRC
21 october 2025 - 07:27:09Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - The UN aid coordination office (OCHA) on Monday reported that health systems across North and South [...] Full text...
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People in Sudan's besieged El Fasher city remain trapped - UN
21 october 2025 - 07:18:49Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - People in Sudan's besieged El Fasher city in the west of the war-torn country remain trapped [...] Full text...
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Last Ebola patient in Democratic Republic of the Congo discharged
19 october 2025 - 14:58:53Bulape, DRC (PANA) - The last Ebola patient in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was discharged Sunday, marking an [...] Full text...
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‘No level of lead is safe’: WHO
18 october 2025 - 07:46:13Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Lead is found in many everyday products such as paint and cosmetics, but that doesn’t make [...] Full text...
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Gaza: Hostages released, aid scale-up has begun, say aid agencies
13 october 2025 - 12:11:28Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - As the UN Secretary-General on Monday welcomed the release of all living hostages from Gaza, [...] Full text...
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The girl I am, the change I lead
11 october 2025 - 14:33:58Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Shaped through consultations with girls organizations, UN partners and, most importantly, girls themselves, the 2025 International [...] Full text...
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Spending smarter to boost growth (IMF Blog By Era Dabla-Norris, Davide Furceri, Zsuzsa Munkacsi, Galen She)
09 october 2025 - 10:03:26Washington, DC, United States (PANA) - Over the past two decades, Rwanda achieved remarkable progress. Nearly every household now has [...] Full text...
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Alcohol consumption could increase the risk of developing seven types of cancer
09 october 2025 - 07:48:22Lyon, France (PANA) - Increased alcohol consumption, even moderate, is associated with a higher risk of seven types of cancer, [...] Full text...
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Turning Tanzania’s farmers into agri- entrepreneurs. A unique international alliance helps smallholder farmers become more sustainable and profitable (By Caitríona Palmer and Birom Seck)
09 october 2025 - 07:36:35Mwanza, Tanzania (PANA) - It is just past dawn in the village of Kasuguti, Tanzania, and as a golden pink [...] Full text...
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Thousands flee amid renewed fighting in northern Mozambique, UN warns
08 october 2025 - 07:24:07Maputo, Mozambique (PANA) - Nearly 22,000 people fled their homes in northern Mozambique in a single week last month due [...] Full text...
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Two years of Gaza-Israel war bring ‘indescribable’ pain, warn aid agencies
07 october 2025 - 14:50:30Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - As the Gaza-Israel war enters its third year, sparked by Hamas-led attacks on Israel, the UN [...] Full text...
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South Africa moves to step up vulture conservation
07 october 2025 - 07:41:44Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – In the lead up to the Session of the Meeting of the Parties (MOP9) [...] Full text...
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UN warns of ‘catastrophic’ humanitarian crisis in Sudan’s Darfur
04 october 2025 - 06:17:39Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - The UN’s top humanitarian official in Sudan has warned of an impending catastrophe in Darfur, [...] Full text...
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LIbya records cases of rickettsiosis
02 october 2025 - 15:50:20Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan National Centre for Disease Control (CNC) has announced that it has recorded cases of [...] Full text...
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‘Trust crisis’ impacts vaccine rollouts - WHO
02 october 2025 - 06:52:32Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Immunisation experts at the UN World Health Organisation (WHO) have warned that global protection against preventable [...] Full text...
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European Council underlines EU’s leading role in life sciences
30 september 2025 - 12:17:21Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – The European Council on Tuesday approved conclusions on life sciences for the Union’s competitiveness and welcomed [...] Full text...
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Sudan: Khartoum returnees face shelter crisis, warns IOM
27 september 2025 - 06:32:18Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The ongoing war between rival militaries in Sudan has left vast areas devastated and people returning [...] Full text...
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World leaders support political declaration on NCDs, mental health
27 september 2025 - 06:25:23New York, US (PANA) - World leaders have thrown their weight behind the first-ever United Nations global political declaration tackling noncommunicable [...] Full text...
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UNICEF delivers vaccines, life-saving support as Ebola outbreak hits DRC's Kasai region
25 september 2025 - 11:21:59Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - Nearly 45,000 doses of the Ebola vaccine are on their way to Kasai province as the [...] Full text...
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Uncontrolled high blood pressure puts more than a billion at risk
24 september 2025 - 04:34:55Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - More than 1.4 billion people worldwide live with hypertension, yet only one in five have the [...] Full text...
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EU renews support for WHO’s Universal Health Coverage Partnership
23 september 2025 - 06:50:21New York, US (PANA) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the European Union (EU) have renewed their collaboration on [...] Full text...
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Sudan: UNICEF says at least 11 children killed in El Fashir mosque attack
22 september 2025 - 15:37:39Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - As more details come out from the scene of the drone strike that killed at [...] Full text...
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Côte d'Ivoire strengthens polio eradication efforts with modern laboratory
19 september 2025 - 06:31:04Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - Côte d’Ivoire has taken a crucial step in the efforts to protect children from the [...] Full text...
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'Sudan faces worst cholera outbreak in years as war devastates infrastructure'
19 september 2025 - 06:18:32Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – Amid Sudan’s devastating conflict, which has already caused tens of thousands of casualties and displaced millions, [...] Full text...
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IAEA chief urges countries to recommit to nuclear non-proliferation
16 september 2025 - 07:09:48Vienna, Austria (PANA) - At the start of the 69th General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in [...] Full text...
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Ebola vaccination begins in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
14 september 2025 - 15:12:20Sun, Sep 14 at 9:21 PM Bulape, DR Congo (PANA) - Vaccination of frontline health workers and contacts of people infected [...] Full text...
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‘Deadly floods’ displace over 100,000 in South Sudan
13 september 2025 - 05:54:49Juba, South Sudan (PANA) - Over 100,000 people in South Sudan have been displaced by what the UN refugee agency, [...] Full text...
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WHO intensifies DRC Ebola outbreak response
12 september 2025 - 08:44:01Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - Following the declaration of the Ebola virus disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s [...] Full text...
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Sudanese doctors: Seven dead, 350 others Infected in cholera outbreak in Kassala State
10 september 2025 - 15:20:56Kassala, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudan Doctors Network has announced that an outbreak of cholera in Kassala State, eastern Sudan, [...] Full text...
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Child obesity level surpasses underweight cases worldwide for the first time, UNICEF warns
10 september 2025 - 07:45:15New York, US (PANA) - For the first time in history, obesity has surpassed those underweight as the most common [...] Full text...
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Over 35 metric tonnes of WHO medical supplies arrive in Kabul to support earthquake survivors in eastern Afghanistan
08 september 2025 - 20:52:30Kabul, Afghanistan (PANA) - A new consignment of more than 35 metric tonnes of life-saving medical supplies landed in Kabul [...] Full text...
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IOM deploys team to support national Ebola response in DRC
08 september 2025 - 09:38:40Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) – The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) is responding to a new Ebola virus disease outbreak in [...] Full text...
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The night the mountains shook: A doctor on the front lines of Afghanistan’s earthquake (A UN Feature)
06 september 2025 - 20:33:50Jalalabad, Afghanistan (PANA) - The first jolt threw Dr. Abdul Mateen Sahak out of bed. The second sent him to [...] Full text...
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Amid escalating attacks in Gaza, UN rights chief calls on US to withdraw sanctions against Palestinian rights groups
06 september 2025 - 07:15:59Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Sanctions imposed by the United States on three prominent and well-respected Palestinian human rights groups are [...] Full text...
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The ‘unthinkable’ is underway in Gaza City, UNICEF warns
05 september 2025 - 20:08:10New York, US (PANA) - The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) called on Thursday for the international community to do everything [...] Full text...
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Save the Children aid workers travelling on donkeys deliver first emergency assistance to landslide victims
05 september 2025 - 14:30:52Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - An international humanitarian organisation, Save the Children, aid workers travelling on a herd of donkeys [...] Full text...
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The ‘unthinkable’ is underway in Gaza City, UNICEF warns
05 september 2025 - 07:23:16Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) called on Thursday for the international community to do everything [...] Full text...
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New Ebola outbreak declared in DR Congo
05 september 2025 - 07:09:19Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have declared an outbreak of [...] Full text...
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African health leaders, partners call for greater investment in integrated NCD services
31 august 2025 - 07:34:56Lusaka, Lusaka (PANA) — African health ministers and partners are calling for increased investment in integrated health services to address [...] Full text...
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From outbreaks to sustainability: African ministers commit to accelerate polio endgame
30 august 2025 - 09:26:57Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – African health ministers have pledged renewed action to end all forms of polio and safeguard the [...] Full text...
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The descent into ‘a massive famine’ in Gaza has begun, relief agencies warn
29 august 2025 - 14:20:04Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Amid reports of increased Israeli military operations across Gaza City on Friday, UN aid agencies repeated [...] Full text...
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Why economic inequality matters for development (World Bank Blog by Luis Felipe López-Calva, Global Director, Poverty and Equity Global Practice; Deon Filmer, Director, Development Research Group, World Bank and Haishan Fu, Chief Statistician of the World Bank Group and Director of the Development Data Group)
28 august 2025 - 07:22:41Washington, DC, USA (PANA) - Does economic inequality matter for development? That’s a question we discussed at a recent event [...] Full text...
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Hunger and disease in Gaza will only worsen from ‘man-made’ famine: WHO
27 august 2025 - 16:33:39Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday issued a new warning over the deadly impacts [...] Full text...
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UNICEF: Over 1000 children killed, maimed in siege of Sudanese city
27 august 2025 - 12:33:37Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Wednesday said that since the start of the siege [...] Full text...
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One in four still lacks access to safe drinking water and sanitation
26 august 2025 - 17:54:29Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Despite progress over the past decade, billions worldwide still lack access to safe drinking water, sanitation, [...] Full text...
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African health ministers endorse framework to accelerate progress on oral health
26 august 2025 - 06:40:44Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - African ministers of health gathering for the World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Committee for Africa on [...] Full text...
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African health ministers endorse framework to accelerate progress on oral health
26 august 2025 - 06:26:05Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - African ministers of health gathering for the World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Committee for Africa on [...] Full text...
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Cholera epidemic spreads in Sudanese refugee camps in Chad
26 august 2025 - 06:06:26N'Djamena, Chad (PANA) - Cholera, which is raging in Sudan, is spreading to Chad. As large numbers of Sudanese from [...] Full text...
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Putting water management at the centre of the climate change fight
25 august 2025 - 18:54:37Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Some 2.2 billion people worldwide still lack access to safely managed drinking water services, according to [...] Full text...
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African ministers kick off regional forum on health
25 august 2025 - 14:57:16Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - African ministers of health on Monday opened the Seventy-fifth session of the World Health Organisation (WHO) [...] Full text...
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Sudanese groups launch campaign to extend UN fact-finding mission
25 august 2025 - 11:41:26Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - A broad coalition of Sudanese civil society groups is preparing to launch a national campaign demanding [...] Full text...
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Pope calls for security, peace for people of Mozabique's Cabo Delgado province
24 august 2025 - 13:17:00Vatican City, Vatican (PANA) - Pope Leo on Sunday expressed concern about violence for insecurity in Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province [...] Full text...
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UN agencies warn of rising heat stress risks for workers worldwide
24 august 2025 - 06:28:04Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Extreme heat is fast becoming one of the biggest threats to workers’ health and livelihoods, the [...] Full text...
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WHO, WMO issue new report and guidance to protect workers from increasing heat stress
21 august 2025 - 20:31:52(Embargoed until 08:00 AM CEST / 06:00 AM GMT on Friday, 22 August 2025)Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health [...] Full text...
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Monsoon floods kill more than 700 in Pakistan, with heavy rains set to continue
21 august 2025 - 19:45:49Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Heavy monsoon rains and flash floods have killed at least 739 people across Pakistan since late [...] Full text...
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Libyan health ministry and African Centre for Disease Control officials discuss transboundary diseases
20 august 2025 - 13:22:04Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Officials of Libya's Ministry of Health and African Centre for Disease Control and Prevention met on [...] Full text...
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Disease spreads in Somalia as funding cuts leave 300,000 without safe water
20 august 2025 - 11:59:07Mogadisu, Somalia (PANA) - More than 300,000 people – mostly displaced families living in overcrowded settlements and rural communities across [...] Full text...
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Sudan: MSF suspends activities at Zalingei hospital following armed attack
20 august 2025 - 08:50:52Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - Medical and humanitarian charity, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), has been forced to reduce its teams [...] Full text...
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“I had to be there”: The doctor who healed Goma’s wounds (By Fabrice Robinet, UN News)
20 august 2025 - 08:29:04Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - In late January, when Goma fell to the M23 rebels, Dr. Thierno Baldé was one of [...] Full text...
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‘Beauty and Beast’: Story of the Sudanese IDPs and the Gash River
19 august 2025 - 19:13:39Kassala, Sudan (PANA) - Huge volumes of thick reddish torrents of water dash from the Ethiopian plateau and mountainous heights [...] Full text...
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Hundreds of health, nutrition centres closed in Somalia due to suspension of US aid
19 august 2025 - 07:46:37Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The realisation is painful. More than six months after the U.S. government decided to suspend its [...] Full text...
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Cholera cases spreading around the world: WHO
16 august 2025 - 05:48:14Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The preventable but often deadly waterborne disease – cholera – continues to spread around the world, [...] Full text...
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Peacekeepers find weapons trove in southern Lebanon, as drought threatens millions
15 august 2025 - 16:44:12New York, US (PANA) - UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon have uncovered rocket launchers, mortar rounds and other unauthorized weapons, [...] Full text...
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Guinea introduces malaria vaccine into routine immunization
14 august 2025 - 13:27:50Conakry, Guinea (PANA) – Under the leadership of the Ministry of Health and Public Hygiene, and with the support of [...] Full text...
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MSF: War fuels cholera outbreak across Sudan
14 august 2025 - 12:05:03Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - International medical and charity organisation, Médecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), says that war has fuelled cholera [...] Full text...
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Gaza health system ‘catastrophic’ with hospitals overwhelmed and medicines running out, WHO warns
12 august 2025 - 17:31:32Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - Public health conditions in Gaza are “catastrophic”, with hospitals operating far beyond capacity. Some life-saving medicines [...] Full text...
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Sudan’s civilians continue to face attacks, starvation
12 august 2025 - 05:41:36New York, US (PANA) - Across war-torn Sudan, civilians continue to face ongoing attacks, starvation and cholera outbreaks. The Director of [...] Full text...
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Kenya achieves elimination of human African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness as a public health problem
09 august 2025 - 11:08:37Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) -- The World Health Organisation (WHO) has validated Kenya as having eliminated human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) or [...] Full text...
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You can run – but we will find you, militias tell terrified civilians
08 august 2025 - 15:09:59Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Help is needed urgently to halt a deadly cholera outbreak that is sweeping across Sudan, UN [...] Full text...
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UN officials warn of starvation amid ‘gender emergency’ in war-torn Sudan
08 august 2025 - 07:44:17New York, US (PANA) - Hungry civilians are reportedly eating animal feed as women and girls face a “gender emergency” [...] Full text...
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Gaza: Hospitals ‘at near-total collapse’, staff overwhelmed by the injured
07 august 2025 - 19:06:42Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - Exhausted UN aid workers in Gaza on Thursday continued to report a lack of food [...] Full text...
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Doctors appeal: Save us from Phase-3 Hunger
06 august 2025 - 14:42:16Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA)- The Sudan Doctors Network on Wednesday issued an urgent humanitarian appeal regarding the dire food situation [...] Full text...
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A Moving History: IMF Finance & Development (By Ian Goldin, Professor of Globalisation and Development at Oxford University)
06 august 2025 - 10:46:10Washington, DC, USA (PANA) - The history of migration is the story of humanity and its progress. It’s a story [...] Full text...
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UNICEF Warns: We are at the verge of irreversible damage to an entire generation of children in Sudan
05 august 2025 - 15:10:14Port Sudan, Sudan, (PANA)- Sheldon Yett, UNICEF Sudan Representative, has described seeing children ‘reduced to skin and bones’ during a [...] Full text...
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Mounting civilian casualties in Sudan as fighting intensifies
05 august 2025 - 05:55:24Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - As conflict intensifies between rival militaries in Sudan, the UN humanitarian wing (OCHA) expressed alarm [...] Full text...
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The final straw? Plastic pollution talks get underway in Geneva
04 august 2025 - 21:55:01Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Efforts are getting underway in Geneva to finalize a global agreement to tackle the staggering and growing [...] Full text...
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Cholera spreads in North Darfur, 640,000 children under threat, UNICEF warns
03 august 2025 - 20:00:10Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Cholera is ripping through North Darfur, Sudan, threatening thousands of children already weakened by hunger and [...] Full text...
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Violence in northern Mozambique forces thousands to flee, straining aid efforts
03 august 2025 - 07:43:03Maputo, Mozambique (PANA) - Recent attacks by armed groups in northern Mozambique displaced tens of thousands in July alone, deepening [...] Full text...
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World Breastfeeding Week: Invest in health systems and policies to benefit mums and babies - WHO
02 august 2025 - 05:32:39Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Friday, 1 August, marked the start of World Breastfeeding Week and this year’s theme calls for [...] Full text...
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Sudan gripped by deadly crisis as hunger, disease and heat intensify
31 july 2025 - 05:07:23Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) raised the alarm on Wednesday [...] Full text...
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Gaza children starving despite Israeli ‘tactical pauses’, UN says
31 july 2025 - 05:01:09New York, US (PANA) - Despite daily “tactical pauses” declared by Israeli forces, humanitarian conditions in Gaza remain catastrophic, with [...] Full text...
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Cholera outbreak in West and Central Africa poses crisis for children
31 july 2025 - 04:58:58Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Some 80,000 children are estimated to be at high risk of cholera in West and Central [...] Full text...
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US' plan to destroy US$9.7 million of contraceptives is unconscionable, says medical charity
30 july 2025 - 06:40:00Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The United States government’s plan to destroy US$9.7 million worth of contraceptives is a callous [...] Full text...
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In Gaza, mounting evidence of famine and widespread starvation
29 july 2025 - 12:56:23Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - “The worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in Gaza,” UN-backed food security experts said [...] Full text...
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Answering Africa’s call for private Investment in pharma manufacturing (A World Bank Feature)
29 july 2025 - 09:13:27Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - African governments are prioritising health security, targeting ambitious production goals for medicines and vaccines. Partnerships, collaborations, [...] Full text...
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UN health agency calls for urgent action on hepatitis
29 july 2025 - 05:29:34Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) is urging governments and partners to step up efforts to eliminate [...] Full text...
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MSF condemns abduction of Health Ministry staff in South Sudan; urges immediate protection of healthcare workers
28 july 2025 - 05:13:26Juba, South Sudan (PANA) - Medical charity, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), has strongly condemnsed the abduction of a Ministry of [...] Full text...
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Sudan: UN scales up response plan as humanitarian needs rise in Tawila
23 july 2025 - 05:56:19New York, US (PANA) - As the humanitarian crisis deepens in Sudan, the UN and partners have revised and scaled [...] Full text...
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Dreams amid the rubble: Gaza’s women speak of homes, loss and hungry children
21 july 2025 - 21:26:12Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - Hadriya collapses from hunger, Khadija dreams of her kitchen and Hiyam longs for her daughters’ [...] Full text...
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Global health in decline: UN warns of glaring inequalities
19 july 2025 - 08:22:18Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Despite significant progress since the beginning of the century, a new UN assessment indicates that improvements [...] Full text...
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Children miss out on vaccines as diseases spread in Sudan
17 july 2025 - 18:54:11Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - UN agencies warn that childhood immunization rates in Sudan have plummeted to their lowest level in [...] Full text...
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Gaza war: UN officials warn of unspeakable conditions as children bear the brunt
17 july 2025 - 07:58:14New York, US (PANA) - Conditions in Gaza have reached an unspeakable level of devastation with children paying the highest [...] Full text...
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State-of-the-art laboratory enhances Madagascar’s polio response
15 july 2025 - 05:31:23Antananarivo, Madagascar (PANA) – A new state-of-the-art laboratory has bolstered Madagascar’s efforts to survey and detect polioviruses and effectively respond [...] Full text...
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Health leaders commit to accelerate action against severe chronic diseases in Africa
15 july 2025 - 05:25:19Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Health leaders, policymakers and development partners across Africa have renewed commitment to accelerate the implementation of the [...] Full text...
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Humanitarian needs deepen in Sudan amid rising hostilities and heavy rains
15 july 2025 - 05:05:36Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - Escalating violence, displacement and heavy rains are deepening the needs of civilians caught in the [...] Full text...
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‘A compass towards progress’ – but key development goals remain way off track
14 july 2025 - 20:13:45Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Global life expectancy increased by an astonishing five years between 2000 and 2019. And then since [...] Full text...
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WHO urges roll-out of first long-acting HIV prevention jab
14 july 2025 - 13:08:26Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - A breakthrough HIV drug that only needs to be injected twice a year to offer near-total [...] Full text...
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Study shows vaccine campaigns cut deaths by nearly 60 per cent
13 july 2025 - 05:02:42Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Emergency vaccination campaigns have slashed deaths from major infectious disease outbreaks by nearly 60 per cent [...] Full text...
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UN warns of deepening health crisis in Gaza amid mass casualty incidents
10 july 2025 - 05:58:52New York, US (PANA) - As scores of people – including medical staff and their families – have reportedly been [...] Full text...
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AU urges countries end to fragmented response to climate change
09 july 2025 - 12:26:32Windhoek, Namibia (PANA) – Most African countries have developed early warning systems to climate change-induced disasters, such as floods although [...] Full text...
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South Sudan’s longest cholera outbreak enters critical stage
08 july 2025 - 22:22:25Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - On the eve of the fourteenth anniversary of its independence, South Sudan – the world’s youngest [...] Full text...
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Swiss company, Novartis, receives approval for first malaria medicine for newborn babies and young infants
08 july 2025 - 12:18:39Basel, Switzerland (PANA) – Novartis, a Swiss pharmaceutical company, announced on Tuesday that Coartem Baby has been approved by Swissmedic [...] Full text...
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IMF staff mission finds Lesotho facing ‘uncertain external environment’
08 july 2025 - 10:46:26Maseru, Lesotho (PANA) – The authorities in Lesotho face the challenge of transforming fiscal surpluses into sustainable and high-quality growth [...] Full text...
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Immunization experts urge stronger action to close vaccination gaps in Africa
08 july 2025 - 10:03:17Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – Experts, policymakers and global health partners have called for stronger, coordinated action to prevent backsliding on [...] Full text...
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UN warns of worsening humanitarian crisis in Sudan as displacement, hunger and disease escalate
08 july 2025 - 05:49:18New York, US (PANA) - UN humanitarians on Monday sounded the alarm over the worsening conditions in Sudan, as violence [...] Full text...
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33 million lives at risk in Sudan's cholera epidemic
04 july 2025 - 09:50:34Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - As fighting rages in Sudan, another threat is spreading through the country's stagnant waters and [...] Full text...
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Drowning in debt: New forum in Sevilla offers borrowers chance to rebalance the books
02 july 2025 - 18:34:16Sevilla, Spain (PANA) - A new mechanism offering debt-distressed countries a way to coordinate action and amplify their voice in [...] Full text...
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UN warns of soaring displacement and looming floods in Sudan
02 july 2025 - 07:16:27New York, US (PANA) - UN humanitarians on Tuesday sounded the alarm over worsening humanitarian conditions in Sudan, as escalating [...] Full text...
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Every hour, 100 people die of loneliness-related causes, UN health agency reports
01 july 2025 - 07:09:30Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - One in six people are affected by loneliness, with significant implications for health and well-being, according [...] Full text...
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World Bank approves health resilience project to protect lives, strengthen emergency response in Mozambique
27 june 2025 - 07:14:17Maputo, Mozambique (PANA) - The World Bank has approved the Mozambique Health Emergency Preparedness, Response and Resilience Project, an initiative [...] Full text...
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World leaders recommit to immunisation amid global funding shortfall
26 june 2025 - 15:40:49Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - The Global Summit: Health & Prosperity through Immunization sees a record number of donors pledge towards [...] Full text...
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Geneva summit calls on G20 leaders to rethink health finance
25 june 2025 - 13:12:34Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The Health 20 (H20) summit, co-convened by the G20 Health and Development Partnership and the World [...] Full text...
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Gaza: UN warns of ‘weaponised hunger’ and growing death toll amid food chaos
23 june 2025 - 05:50:40Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - The top UN humanitarian official in the Occupied Palestinian Territory has issued a stark warning [...] Full text...
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‘One Earth, One Health’: Yoga Day provides respite in a tumultuous world
22 june 2025 - 11:25:40New York, US (PANA) - In an age marked by conflicts, disease, dysfunction and mental health challenges, yoga offers a [...] Full text...
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Gaza horrors continue as the weakest succumb to injuries and disease
20 june 2025 - 16:25:13Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - Death and suffering in Gaza are ever-present and the enclave's people now have little choice [...] Full text...
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Worsening cholera and hunger in South Sudan - UNOCHA
20 june 2025 - 05:56:03Juba, South Sudan (PANA) - The UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) raised the alarm on Thursday over [...] Full text...
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Africa looks towards enhanced climate services to end extreme poverty, water scarcity (Feature By Kennedy Abwao, PANA Correspondent)
19 june 2025 - 16:53:37Windhoek, Namibia (PANA) - The impact of climate change has been felt more severely in urban centres and remote villages [...] Full text...
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Time to rethink health financing: It is not Just a public sector concern
17 june 2025 - 19:52:43London, UK (PANA) - As G7 leaders of the world’s wealthiest nations wrapped up their summit in Kananaskis, Canada, a [...] Full text...
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WHO Director-General announces that mpox remains a public health emergency of international concern
09 june 2025 - 22:18:22Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - On 9 June 2025, WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced that the mpox upsurge continues [...] Full text...
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AIDS still killing one person every minute as funding cuts stall progress
06 june 2025 - 07:05:52New York, US (PANA) - AIDS-related deaths have dropped to their lowest level since 2004, but progress remains precarious, with [...] Full text...
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Regional humanitarian crisis deepens as displacement surges in South Sudan
04 june 2025 - 07:30:10Juba, South Sudan (PANA) - Since a sharp escalation in fighting in South Sudan in late February, 165,000 people have [...] Full text...
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Sudan: Rise in people fleeing to Chad as violence surges
03 june 2025 - 17:11:02Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The number of Sudanese refugees in Chad has more than tripled in just over two years [...] Full text...
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WHO greenlights two new vaccines
01 june 2025 - 05:08:30Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN World Health Organisation on Friday issued recommendations for two new immunisation tools. They are a [...] Full text...
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WHO Director-General, Member States reaffirm commitment to WHO and global health at historic World Health Assembly
31 may 2025 - 15:18:46Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus praised the commitment shown by the Organization’s Member States which, [...] Full text...
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Flavoured nicotine products driving youth addiction, WHO warns
31 may 2025 - 09:45:51Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - For most nicotine users today, their first experience with the drug is a flavoured product – [...] Full text...
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Menstrual hygiene: a 'silent emergency' for women and girls in Gaza
30 may 2025 - 07:02:47Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - As Palestinians in Gaza continue to fall deeper into the abyss on day 600 of [...] Full text...
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WHO, Africa CDC and RKI expand implementation of a unique partnership to strengthen collaborative surveillance in Africa
29 may 2025 - 22:12:16Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO), Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), Robert Koch [...] Full text...
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New project to boost Tunisia’s health system and pandemic response
29 may 2025 - 07:56:31Washington, DC, United States (PANA) - The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors on Wednesday approved US$125.16 million in financing [...] Full text...
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Pandemics to pollution: WHO Assembly delivers landmark health decisions
29 may 2025 - 06:07:13Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The 78th World Health Assembly concluded on Tuesday in Geneva, marking several major milestones in global [...] Full text...
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Over a million children at risk as cholera spreads in Sudan’s Khartoum State
28 may 2025 - 16:11:17Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA)- The UN Children Fund (UNICEF) has claimed that more than 7,700 cholera cases - including over [...] Full text...
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Sudan conflict triggers regional health crisis, warns WHO
28 may 2025 - 07:05:13Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - As the war between rival militaries in Sudan continues, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has [...] Full text...
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Tanzanian farmers clear more land to expand coffee plantations
26 may 2025 - 12:59:22Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Tanzania's coffee sector is poised for expansion, with cultivated areas projected to grow from [...] Full text...
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Biodiversity loss demands urgent global action, says UN chief
22 may 2025 - 07:52:10New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called on countries to radically rethink their relationship with nature, [...] Full text...
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Director-General’s Award for Global Health given to Professor Awa Marie Coll Seck and Professor Sir Brian Greenwood
20 may 2025 - 20:25:17Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - In recognition of their lifetime achievements in global health, specifically in malaria elimination and beyond, WHO [...] Full text...
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World Health Assembly opens amid high-stakes pandemic treaty vote, global funding crisis
20 may 2025 - 04:48:51Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The 78th World Health Assembly opened on Monday with a broad appeal to global solidarity, as delegates [...] Full text...
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WHO validates Mauritania for eliminating trachoma as a public health problem
19 may 2025 - 22:20:21Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) has validated Mauritania as having eliminated trachoma as a public health [...] Full text...
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Pandemic heroes stepped up in 2020 – now they’re asking world leaders to do the same
17 may 2025 - 18:49:00Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - As world leaders meet in Geneva to negotiate a new UN-brokered agreement on pandemic preparedness, we [...] Full text...
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‘The world is failing its health checkup,’ says WHO
15 may 2025 - 18:58:00New York, US (PANA) - In just two years, between 2019 and 2021, life expectancy worldwide fell by 1.8 years [...] Full text...
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‘Stop the 21st century atrocity’ in Gaza, Fletcher urges UN Security Council
14 may 2025 - 05:45:24New York, US (PANA) - No aid has entered Gaza for more than 10 weeks and every single one of [...] Full text...
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Gaza: 57 children reported dead from malnutrition, says WHO
13 may 2025 - 17:38:24Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) -- In the aid desert of Gaza, malnourished children are dying while survivors can now expect a [...] Full text...
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UN stresses importance of road safety
11 may 2025 - 07:22:06New York, US (PANA) - A cycling network expanded from 70 kilometres to over 400 kilometres in Fortaleza, Brazil. A [...] Full text...
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UN fund allocates over $4 million to support DRC refugees, Angola cholera outbreak
10 may 2025 - 07:56:03Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Two new allocations from the UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) will support DRC refugees in [...] Full text...
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UNRWA condemns ‘storming’ of schools in East Jerusalem
10 may 2025 - 06:32:34Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, has strongly condemned the forced entry by Israeli security [...] Full text...
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Bill Gates-supported fund aims at maternal, newborn health in Africa
09 may 2025 - 12:26:03Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - A new Bill Gates-backed fund targets maternal and newborn health in Africa, the Gates [...] Full text...
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URNWA condemns ‘storming’ of schools in East Jerusalem
08 may 2025 - 19:53:43Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - The UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, has strongly condemned the forced entry by Israeli [...] Full text...
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UN condemns aerial bombardment on South Sudan hospital
06 may 2025 - 07:08:59Juba, South Sudan (PANA) - The United Nations has condemned a deadly aerial bombardment on a hospital in South Sudan’s [...] Full text...
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FAO calls for action amid foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks
05 may 2025 - 17:22:59Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Greater awareness and action are needed as Europe and parts of the Middle East grapple with [...] Full text...
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WHO chief laments most disruptive cuts to global health funding ‘in living memory’
02 may 2025 - 08:12:50Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - As sudden budget cuts severely impact global health funding, prolonged conflicts around the world are fuelling [...] Full text...
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Anthrax outbreak compounds security crisis in eastern DR Congo
02 may 2025 - 07:52:39Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - An anthrax outbreak is compounding the worsening security situation in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo [...] Full text...
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UN refugee chief regrets flouting of international humanitarian law in conflicts
29 april 2025 - 07:54:00New York, US (PANA) - Thousands of lives have been “destroyed in the pursuit of supremacy”, as international humanitarian law [...] Full text...
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WFP runs out of food stocks in Gaza
25 april 2025 - 18:04:52New York, US (PANA) - The World Food Programme (WFP) has run out of food in the Gaza Strip as [...] Full text...
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More action needed to beat malaria for good, says WHO
25 april 2025 - 05:19:10Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Although strong global collaboration has helped to save nearly 13 million lives from malaria over the [...] Full text...
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Sewage, trash and disease overwhelm displaced communities in Gaza
23 april 2025 - 19:28:39Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - Amid sweltering heat, raw sewage and overflowing trash, displaced families in southern Gaza are facing [...] Full text...
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'Malaria is an African problem and Africa must find the solution'
23 april 2025 - 14:53:13Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - Africa still bears the brunt of the global malaria burden—with 94% of cases occurring on the [...] Full text...
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Myanmar: Thousands remain in crisis weeks after deadly earthquakes
18 april 2025 - 19:59:15Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Thousands of families in Myanmar remain without shelter, water, or medical care three weeks after deadly [...] Full text...
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Africa CDC and WHO update mpox strategy as outbreaks persist
17 april 2025 - 18:30:23Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Africa CDC and WHO have updated their joint Continental Response Plan for the mpox emergency as [...] Full text...
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Gaza: Alongside conflict, an information war is still happening, warns UNRWA chief
17 april 2025 - 16:41:18Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - Amid reported Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip into Thursday that killed at least 23 [...] Full text...
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UN: Families fleeing attacks in Sudan’s Zamzam camp arrive injured, traumatized, with nothing to eat
16 april 2025 - 16:08:26Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) -Thousands of families have arrived injured, traumatized and with no food or water in the town [...] Full text...
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Flooding displaces thousands amid ongoing unrest in eastern DR Congo
15 april 2025 - 20:09:32Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - Recent severe flooding caused by torrential rains has displaced nearly 10,000 people in Tanganyika province [...] Full text...
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Sudan: 15 million children require humanitarian assistance after two years of war
15 april 2025 - 06:04:23New York, US (PANA) - The number of children in need of humanitarian assistance in Sudan has doubled as the [...] Full text...
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Millions displaced, health system in ruins as Sudan war fuels famine
15 april 2025 - 05:47:10Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - More than 12.4 million people have been forced from their homes across Sudan – including [...] Full text...
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Resilience in the face of thirst: Trucking water in war-ravaged Gaza
13 april 2025 - 10:50:55Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - In Gaza, where lack of access to water is an existential threat, Ibrahim Alloush stands [...] Full text...
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World Court begins hearing Sudan’s ‘complicity in genocide’ case against the United Arab Emirates
10 april 2025 - 17:41:37The Hague, Netherlands (PANA) - The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Thursday began hearing Sudan’s case against the United [...] Full text...
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Preventable ‘meningitis belt’ deaths targeted in health agency action plan
10 april 2025 - 12:53:27Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Millions of deaths could be avoided from meningitis if countries are able to adopt new guidelines [...] Full text...
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‘Persistent violence’ driving displacement and disease outbreaks in DR Congo
10 april 2025 - 07:36:43Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - The displacement of people and the outbreak of disease in the eastern Democratic Republic of the [...] Full text...
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Fear and uncertainty are daily staples for Gaza’s most vulnerable
09 april 2025 - 17:21:57Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - In Gaza, ongoing Israeli military operations and the aid blockade have continued to add to [...] Full text...
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Children die while walking long distances in South Sudan to seek medical treatment for cholera
09 april 2025 - 11:16:04Juba, South Sudan (PANA) - At least five children with cholera in South Sudan have died on an arduous journey [...] Full text...
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Healthy Beginnings, Hopeful Futures – On World Health Day WHO calls for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza
07 april 2025 - 18:15:38Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - On World Health Day, with the theme “Healthy beginnings, hopeful futures,” the Gaza Strip continues to [...] Full text...
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More than one million children in Gaza deprived of aid for over a month: UNICEF
06 april 2025 - 14:30:54Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - The blockade of humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip is having dire consequences for more [...] Full text...
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