25 april 2024 - 06:38:45
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Two UN agencies alongside the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the global vaccine alliance Gavi [...] Full text...
19 april 2024 - 05:31:43
Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - UN human rights chief Volker Türk this week met survivors of massacres in eastern provinces of [...] Full text...
15 april 2024 - 11:57:28
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A full year of conflict in Sudan has already caused immense suffering and death but the [...] Full text...
05 april 2024 - 14:15:34
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) said here Friday that more than 1.2 million cholera rapid diagnostic [...] Full text...
01 april 2024 - 12:48:44
Juba, South Sudan (PANA) - A measles crisis is mounting in South Sudan’s Western Equatoria state, just as health authorities [...] Full text...
14 february 2024 - 05:47:54
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Civilians continue to bear the brunt as the war between rival militaries in Sudan spreads into [...] Full text...
25 january 2024 - 18:05:57
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The raging war in Sudan is putting the future of its 24 million youngest citizens at [...] 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...
12 january 2024 - 14:10:50
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - More than 234,000 Burundian refugees, almost half of the total supposedly living in exile abroad, returned [...] Full text...
05 january 2024 - 18:30:42
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Hunger is ravaging Gaza, and this is expected to increase illness across the Strip, most acutely [...] Full text...
04 january 2024 - 16:53:49
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Amid reports of continued Israeli airstrikes overnight in southern and central Gaza and more rocket fire [...] Full text...
22 december 2023 - 18:51:29
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The government of Japan has announced its support for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) programme [...] Full text...
12 december 2023 - 05:53:57
New York, US (PANA) - With just nine days to go for the presidential elections in the Democratic Republic of [...] Full text...
08 december 2023 - 18:35:36
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - Almost eight months of conflict in Sudan have created a dire humanitarian crisis, forced some [...] Full text...
08 november 2023 - 06:44:12
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The war between rival militaries in Sudan is growing in scope and brutality, having driven almost [...] Full text...
31 october 2023 - 16:18:48
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - In war-torn Sudan, cholera, measles, dengue and malaria are circulating in several states and a combination [...] Full text...
30 october 2023 - 19:51:12
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudanese environmentalists and poeliticians have warned that every possible ingredient for environmental catastrophe is now fermenting [...] Full text...
18 october 2023 - 19:14:14
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - In war-torn Sudan, food insecurity and disruptions to essential services could cost the lives of more [...] Full text...
22 september 2023 - 16:39:06
Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - Increasing armed violence, forced displacement and devastating floods in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) [...] Full text...
21 september 2023 - 05:26:33
New York, US (PANA) - Civilians are continuing to pay a heavy price as the “senseless violence” between rival militaries [...] Full text...
20 september 2023 - 06:17:01
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - In war-torn Sudan, more than 1,200 children under-five have died in camps in the space of [...] Full text...
14 september 2023 - 05:26:12
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The United States says it s alarmed by the recent increase of indiscriminate air and [...] Full text...
10 september 2023 - 06:50:58
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Violence against children in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has descended to a [...] Full text...
04 september 2023 - 18:03:54
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, and 64 humanitarian and national civil society organizations on Monday appealed [...] Full text...
25 august 2023 - 14:42:03
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths said on Friday that the spread of fighting and hunger in [...] Full text...
24 august 2023 - 11:51:21
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - At least two million children have been forced from their homes since the conflict in [...] 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...
15 august 2023 - 18:44:25
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - After four months of war in Sudan, UN humanitarians on Tuesday called for action to be [...] Full text...
05 august 2023 - 05:55:41
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Two senior UN humanitarian officials have called for more funding and less bureaucratic impediments to support [...] Full text...
28 july 2023 - 06:03:22
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The conflict in Sudan has sparked a health crisis for the 3.4 million people forced to flee to [...] Full text...
25 july 2023 - 06:28:00
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - After 100 days of fighting in Sudan, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported on Monday that at [...] 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...
16 july 2023 - 19:40:51
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – A deadlier pandemic than the coronavirus will reappear after seven years and countries must prepare adequately, [...] Full text...
30 june 2023 - 20:34:01
Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - Increased violence, natural disasters and disease outbreaks have fuelled a deteriorating health situation in the eastern [...] Full text...
27 june 2023 - 06:05:21
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Climate, armed conflict, high food prices and post-COVID-19 economic fall-out have caused record food insecurity [...] Full text...
25 june 2023 - 07:02:32
Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - The number of internally displaced persons in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has more [...] Full text...
06 june 2023 - 16:51:30
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The National Centre for Disease Control has announced that it will be launching a five-day measles [...] Full text...
23 may 2023 - 05:53:56
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - Children in the Horn of Africa are living through an unprecedented large-scale crisis of hunger, displacement, [...] Full text...
06 may 2023 - 06:35:22
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - Recurring attacks by armed groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) continue [...] 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...
30 march 2023 - 15:07:26
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) has expressed concern over the increase of measles cases in the [...] Full text...
20 march 2023 - 16:29:49
Mogadishu, Somalia (PANA) - A new report released Monday by the Federal Ministry of Health & Human Services, WHO and [...] Full text...
10 march 2023 - 15:31:49
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Life-threatening hunger caused by climate shocks, violent insecurity and disease in the Horn of Africa, have [...] Full text...
28 february 2023 - 05:39:48
Maputo, Mozambique (PANA) – Mozambique on Monday kicked off a cholera vaccination campaign targeting around 720,000 people in eight districts as [...] 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...
09 february 2023 - 05:05:10
Mogadishu, Somalia (PANA) - Humanitarians are seeking $2.6 billion to assist some 7.6 million people in Somalia this year, the [...] Full text...
08 february 2023 - 13:20:44
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Preparations for a vaccination campaign in Libya targeting children aged 0-5 years, scheduled for the middle [...] Full text...
13 january 2023 - 15:55:13
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Due to the impact of food and nutrition crises caused by natural hazards such as [...] Full text...
31 december 2022 - 05:19:14
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - UN agencies, the Ethiopian authorities and partners on Friday kicked off a nationwide integrated measles [...] Full text...
23 december 2022 - 05:46:30
Mogadishu, Somalia (PANA) - The number of children suffering from dire drought conditions across Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia has more [...] 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...
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...
10 november 2022 - 04:45:09
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Limited supply and unequal vaccine distribution means that lower-income countries consistently struggle to access essential inoculations [...] Full text...
08 november 2022 - 04:28:54
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Greater global solidarity is needed to address the rapidly unfolding humanitarian catastrophe in the Horn [...] 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...
01 november 2022 - 08:36:13
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritius will combine high-quality surveillance and public health promotion with a strong childhood immunisation programme to [...] Full text...
28 october 2022 - 18:53:27
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The UN World Health Organisation (WHO) expressed serious concerns on Friday about a likely spike [...] Full text...
19 october 2022 - 11:40:36
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Gambia's Ministry of Health on Tuesday started a week-long campaign to vaccinate children against measles-rubella.
Aja Kandeh, [...] Full text...
18 october 2022 - 19:10:23
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Thousands of severely malnourished boys and girls in Somalia are at risk of dying, the UN [...] Full text...
13 september 2022 - 17:46:08
New York, US (PANA) - Catastrophic hunger levels in Somalia have left more than 513,000 children at risk of dying, [...] Full text...
18 august 2022 - 05:26:43
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday highlighted the need to support millions [...] 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...
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...
13 july 2022 - 05:18:05
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Rising COVID-19 cases are not only putting further pressure on already stretched health systems and workers [...] 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...
25 january 2022 - 14:36:40
Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - The government of Japan has donated medical materials and equipment worth about US$1.5 million to Guinea, [...] Full text...
18 january 2022 - 14:37:07
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Since 2021, Burundi has been hit by a resurgence of diseases with epidemic potential, mainly due [...] Full text...
13 january 2022 - 05:35:26
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - With the crisis escalating in Sudan, there have been 15 reports of attacks on healthcare workers and health [...] Full text...
21 december 2021 - 07:22:14
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - There is now “consistent evidence” that the Omicron variant is outpacing Delta, as COVID-19 continues to [...] Full text...
09 october 2021 - 09:23:01
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - Conflict in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and a lack of funding, are leaving humanitarians with a [...] Full text...
13 september 2021 - 05:27:05
Niamey, Niger (PANA) - Increasing numbers of children are being killed and targeted for recruitment by armed groups in conflicts [...] Full text...
10 september 2021 - 13:45:12
Juba, South Sudan (PANA) – The World Bank and UNICEF are collaborating to implement a $53.5 million project in South [...] Full text...
02 september 2021 - 13:03:35
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - More than 2.1 million people in the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASAL) of Kenya are severely [...] Full text...
02 september 2021 - 06:46:15
Berlin, Germany (PANA) - A new centre in Berlin, Germany, launched on Wednesday by the World Health Organization (WHO), aims [...] Full text...
10 august 2021 - 18:15:10
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The international charity organziations, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), said it was launching an urgent measles vaccination [...] Full text...
06 august 2021 - 13:25:54
Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - Guinea is now among 24 Sub-Sahara African (SAA) countries with a high rate of COVID-19 infections, [...] Full text...
29 july 2021 - 14:51:56
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – Around 7.7 million children in Africa missed out on vital first doses of Diphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis, Measles and [...] Full text...
22 july 2021 - 15:43:12
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - COVID-19 vaccine inequity will have a lasting and profound impact on socio-economic recovery in low- and [...] Full text...
15 july 2021 - 05:37:11
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a major backsliding in childhood vaccinations, with 23 million children worldwide [...] Full text...
03 may 2021 - 17:00:52
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The 12th Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) was declared officially over on [...] Full text...
01 may 2021 - 10:07:02
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Mistrust in local and national government plays a significant role in slowing down child [...] Full text...
27 april 2021 - 05:15:37
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A UN-led global immunization strategy was unveiled on Monday to reach more than 50 million children who [...] Full text...
23 april 2021 - 21:52:32
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The second round of a World Health Organization “pulse survey“ reveals that over one year into the [...] Full text...
23 april 2021 - 05:14:35
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – The Africa Regional Office of the World Health Organisation (WHO) is warning of risk of major [...] Full text...
16 march 2021 - 13:42:01
Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - The Japanese government on Monday granted US$1,469,772 to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) as part [...] Full text...
02 march 2021 - 12:32:36
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says it is working to relocate thousands of Central [...] Full text...
18 february 2021 - 05:15:10
New York, US (PANA) - International partners working to achieve equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines appealed on Wednesday for the [...] Full text...
20 december 2020 - 00:10:45
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - As governments move to secure COVID-19 vaccines for their populations, choosing these treatments should not be [...] Full text...
12 november 2020 - 21:29:15
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Measles killed an estimated 207,500 people last year after a decade-long failure to reach optimal vaccination [...] Full text...
07 november 2020 - 00:06:47
GENEVA, Switzerland (PANA) - The UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO) Friday called for an urgent action to avert [...] Full text...
06 november 2020 - 17:10:12
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Globally, millions of children are at a heightened risk of polio and measles – dangerous but [...] Full text...
06 november 2020 - 11:31:29
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have expressed "extreme concern" [...] Full text...
25 october 2020 - 07:43:29
Kampala, Uganda (PANA) – In a low-income suburb of Makindye, in the Ugandan capital, Hakim Kiggundu has gathered a group of [...] Full text...
19 october 2020 - 12:05:23
New York, US (PANA) – As the world awaits a COVID-19 vaccine, UNICEF has begun laying the groundwork for the rapid, [...] Full text...
17 october 2020 - 00:07:37
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) warned Friday that four vaccines for children were being withdrawn while [...] Full text...
13 october 2020 - 07:07:06
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Using the principle of so-called “herd immunity” to stem the COVID-19 pandemic is “unethical” and “not [...] Full text...
25 september 2020 - 12:38:37
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is stepping up efforts to help uprooted families [...] Full text...
25 september 2020 - 05:22:46
Niamey, Niger (PANA) - Humanitarians have stepped up assistance to communities “on the brink”, who have been affected by devastating [...] Full text...
26 august 2020 - 22:11:13
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A humanitarian organization Wednesday raised the alarm on a spike in respiratory infections in Somalia due [...] Full text...
15 august 2020 - 05:11:54
Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - Millions of lives could be lost to hunger in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), [...] Full text...
15 july 2020 - 16:11:35
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) – The World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned on Wednesday of "an alarming [...] Full text...
12 july 2020 - 16:11:06
Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - Seventeen persons have died recently from a measles epidemic that hit Guinea for several months, reliable [...] Full text...
10 july 2020 - 09:08:33
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – The Africa Regional Office of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Africa has joined immunization experts in [...] Full text...
12 june 2020 - 14:44:43
Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - The Guinean government on Thursday instituted several measures and defined the means to be put in [...] Full text...
10 june 2020 - 22:23:36
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - The UN High Commission for Refugees (HCR) Wednesday expressed fears for refugees and internally displaced [...] Full text...
02 june 2020 - 05:16:16
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) will assist the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as it [...] Full text...
01 june 2020 - 19:32:06
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - The Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) announced on Monday that a [...] Full text...
28 may 2020 - 22:29:51
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday Thursday called on developed countries and international financial institutions to cancel the [...] Full text...
27 may 2020 - 13:00:36
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) – The UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have teamed [...] Full text...
23 may 2020 - 19:09:20
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan newspapers this week focused on the military changes taking place on the ground in recent [...] Full text...
23 may 2020 - 06:45:07
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Global experts in health and child welfare have again highlighted how the COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting [...] Full text...
22 may 2020 - 18:36:22
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - COVID 19 is disrupting life-saving immunization services around the world, putting millions of children – in [...] Full text...
16 may 2020 - 07:29:31
Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - Fewer children are getting vaccinated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the COVID-19 [...] Full text...
30 april 2020 - 14:39:39
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - In northeast Nigeria, where armed conflict has forced millions from their homes, the UN’s migration agency, [...] Full text...
25 april 2020 - 09:44:30
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – This year’s Africa Vaccination Week started on Friday as the COVID-19 pandemic is causing significant disruption to [...] Full text...
23 april 2020 - 19:54:46
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Shutting down immunization services in the COVID-19 pandemic risks triggering a resurgence of diseases that can [...] Full text...
23 april 2020 - 16:18:24
Brazzaville, Congo PANA) – Public health systems in Africa are coming under severe strain as the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic persists, the [...] Full text...
21 april 2020 - 05:09:41
New York, US (PANA) - Two UN agency chiefs are pledging to accelerate work to expand refugee children’s access to [...] Full text...
16 april 2020 - 19:34:01
New York, US (PANA) - The looming global recession resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic could cause hundreds of thousands of [...] Full text...
14 april 2020 - 05:56:15
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - As countries around the world continue to battle the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 117 million children [...] Full text...
02 april 2020 - 16:36:46
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - The DRC's health system needs urgent help to cope with measles and cholera epidemics that [...] Full text...
01 april 2020 - 05:40:56
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - The looming threat of the new coronavirus disease COVID-19 is just the latest challenge to [...] Full text...
31 march 2020 - 18:31:51
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) – As the COVID-19 pandemic strains health systems worldwide,. the rapidly increasing demand on health facilities and [...] Full text...
27 march 2020 - 06:09:46
New York, US (PANA) - Around the world, the COVID-19 pandemic is overstretching health services, medical goods are in short [...] Full text...
29 february 2020 - 05:03:12
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Countries must act quickly and robustly to contain the coronavirus COVID-19 epidemic, the World Health Organization [...] Full text...
26 february 2020 - 05:37:39
New York, US (PANA) - Along with climate shocks, conflict and acute food insecurity, the East Africa region now faces [...] Full text...
14 february 2020 - 23:01:47
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - The managing director of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Friday called for the [...] Full text...
13 february 2020 - 16:52:21
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - A total of 3,254,425 Burkinabé children, between the ages of 9 and 59 months, were [...] Full text...
13 february 2020 - 07:21:24
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The Ebola virus disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) remains an international public health concern, experts [...] Full text...
12 february 2020 - 07:42:50
Antananarivo, Madagascar (PANA) - Since 2012, the plight of children in Madagascar has not improved and is in many cases [...] Full text...
08 february 2020 - 09:35:30
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) Saturday warned disaster management agencies in the country to be fully [...] Full text...
30 january 2020 - 07:40:37
New York, US (PANA) - Scaling up pneumonia-related interventions could save the lives of nearly nine million children during the [...] Full text...
08 january 2020 - 16:02:38
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Several thousand children aged 15 to 23 months in Kayes town, capital of Kayes region in [...] Full text...
07 january 2020 - 19:24:21
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - With the death toll from the world’s worst measles epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the [...] Full text...
18 december 2019 - 00:02:57
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Congolese President Denis Sassou-Nguesso Tuesday invited his government to carry out an urgent and comprehensive assessment [...] Full text...
05 december 2019 - 13:18:59
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) is expected to launch measles vaccination campaign in North Kivu, in [...] Full text...
04 december 2019 - 07:42:18
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A record 168 million people worldwide will need help and protection in crises spanning more than [...] Full text...
28 november 2019 - 05:54:34
Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - Since the beginning of 2019, measles has claimed more than 5,000 lives in the Democratic Republic of [...] Full text...
25 november 2019 - 06:05:37
Mogadishu, Somalia (PANA) - A campaign to vaccinate some 1.7 million children in Somalia was launched on Sunday by the [...] Full text...
18 november 2019 - 05:15:58
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - More than 28 million children in northern Nigeria will be protected against measles and meningitis through [...] Full text...
14 november 2019 - 15:43:31
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – The Southern Africa region is experiencing the brunt of the climate crisis as it [...] Full text...
09 november 2019 - 09:32:53
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Flood-hit populations across Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean Region face increased risk of illness or death [...] Full text...
30 october 2019 - 11:25:07
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A first batch of 400,000 doses of BCG vaccines for the prevention of the tuberculosis virus, [...] Full text...
22 october 2019 - 09:31:44
Goma, DRC (PANA) - The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and its nine neighbouring countries have endorsed a joint framework [...] Full text...
21 october 2019 - 22:50:43
Niamey, Niger (PANA) - The humanitarian situation in Niger continues to be characterized by food insecurity, malnutrition, population displacements, floods [...] Full text...
18 october 2019 - 22:49:26
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Ten Central African countries agreed here Friday to increase their current immunization coverage rate from an [...] Full text...
17 october 2019 - 15:36:58
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Violence, conflict and hunger continue to drive displacement in the Great Lakes region, the [...] Full text...
17 october 2019 - 07:04:37
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Two consecutive failed rainy seasons in some areas, floods in others, internal violence in [...] Full text...
30 september 2019 - 13:46:48
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Southern Africa is experiencing the devastating consequences of the climate crisis first-hand, according to [...] Full text...
27 september 2019 - 17:15:16
Niamey, Niger (PANA) - The emergence of new border movements and the persistence of unmet needs have led to a [...] Full text...
26 september 2019 - 10:27:57
Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) – With the world’s largest and fastest-moving measles epidemic continuing to expand throughout the Democratic Republic of the [...] Full text...
21 september 2019 - 15:30:34
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - About 100 Malian Red Cross volunteers participated in a capacity-building workshop in Koulikoro, 70 km north-east [...] Full text...
21 september 2019 - 05:04:21
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Local human rights and governance think tank, Research and Advocacy Unit (RAU), has said that the [...] Full text...
15 september 2019 - 15:41:44
Niamey, Niger (PANA) – Nigerien health authorities have launched a national measles vaccination campaign to protect children of up to [...] Full text...
09 september 2019 - 11:47:48
Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - More than 500,000 people have been deprived of health care or have had great difficulty [...] Full text...
04 september 2019 - 21:36:19
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has given 843,717 US dollars to [...] Full text...
01 september 2019 - 17:30:36
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Sunday saluted the courage of the Democratic Republic of [...] Full text...
31 august 2019 - 16:58:25
Goma, DR Congo (PANA) - United Nations chief António Guterres and senior members of the UN on Saturday embarked on [...] Full text...
30 august 2019 - 09:33:48
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - As the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo reaches 3,000 cases, the UN [...] Full text...
18 august 2019 - 09:30:39
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - Medical charity, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), is warning that DR Congo's deadly measles outbreak is "spreading [...] Full text...
13 august 2019 - 05:24:54
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN World Health Organization (WHO) is warning that measles outbreaks continue to spread rapidly around [...] Full text...
31 july 2019 - 19:34:47
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Senior UN officials tasked with controlling the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) [...] Full text...
31 july 2019 - 08:30:45
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - With an unprecedented number of children affected by the Ebola virus outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo [...] Full text...
25 july 2019 - 05:21:26
New York, US (PANA) - The problems of eradicating Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are not only [...] Full text...
20 july 2019 - 07:41:26
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - As the Global Vaccine Action Plan (GAVP 2011-2020) nears its conclusion, a regional consultation has been held [...] Full text...
16 july 2019 - 20:36:20
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Ahead of a key expert meeting convened by the United Nations to decide whether to declare the [...] Full text...
16 july 2019 - 05:57:58
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - More than one in 10 children –almost 20 million worldwide – failed to receive potentially lifesaving vaccines in 2018, the UN said on Monday, citing obstacles including conflict, cost and complacency.
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11 july 2019 - 15:41:03
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - Health workers have started a massive measles vaccination campaign in north-east Democratic Republic of the [...] Full text...
26 june 2019 - 23:26:41
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - About 800,000 pregnant and lactating women, 2 million children under 5 and 5 million boys and [...] Full text...
21 june 2019 - 12:39:58
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Drought in the Horn of Africa has left about 11.7 million people severely food [...] Full text...
18 june 2019 - 12:57:42
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Eleven out of 100 children are not vaccinated in Benin, according to the results of the [...] Full text...
27 may 2019 - 15:45:03
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - An oral vaccination campaign against cholera began on Monday in North Kivu, eastern DR Congo, the [...] Full text...
22 may 2019 - 22:33:51
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - Rampaging elephants destroyed about 7,000 hectares of fields belonging to some 45,000 families between September [...] Full text...
17 may 2019 - 15:38:17
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Burkina Faso President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré on Friday received in audience a delegation of [...] Full text...
14 may 2019 - 20:59:37
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Dr Mariam Diancoumba, coordinator of the project Keneya jemu kan (KJK) - Mopti, dedicated to communication [...] Full text...
08 may 2019 - 12:39:02
Bamako, Mali (PANA) – Malian Prime Minister Boubou Cissé on Tuesday officiated at the launch of a nationwide measles vaccination [...] Full text...
07 may 2019 - 19:52:47
Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - Guinea’s national health security agency (ANSS) said here Tuesday that sudden rise in measles was continuing [...] Full text...
07 may 2019 - 11:31:42
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwanda maintains an estimated immunization rate of 95 pc, as part of its national immunization campaign, [...] Full text...
25 april 2019 - 07:34:20
New York, US (PANA) - Amid a surge in outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles, the United Nations Children’s [...] Full text...
16 april 2019 - 08:26:19
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) – Two UN agency heads have declared that a global measles crisis is well underway, noting a [...] Full text...
02 april 2019 - 23:12:50
Bamako, Mali PANA) - The region of Kayes in western Mali has recorded 166 suspected cases of measles, 34 of [...] Full text...
19 march 2019 - 17:25:25
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) – The UN Child fund (UNICEF) is contributing to improve the vaccination and basic health care for [...] Full text...
14 march 2019 - 06:51:22
Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - More than a quarter of a million children in the Kasai region of the Democratic Republic [...] Full text...
12 march 2019 - 09:36:59
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - More than five million children, aged between nine months and 14 years, are targeted by a [...] Full text...
11 march 2019 - 12:30:42
Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth on Monday announced a donation of US$ 100,000 to Madagascar [...] Full text...
06 march 2019 - 11:32:10
Niamey, Niger (PANA) – Some six million children, aged between 1 and 7 years, will be vaccinated against meningitis A [...] Full text...
06 march 2019 - 06:14:44
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Congolese President Denis Sassou Nguesso on Tuesday launched a five-day national immunization campaign against measles and [...] Full text...
05 march 2019 - 09:12:54
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Benin on Monday launched a nationwide immunization campaign against measles and rubella.
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04 march 2019 - 19:25:30
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Congo will hold a nationwide vaccination campaign against measles and rubella, targeting more than 800,000 children, [...] Full text...
27 february 2019 - 10:26:23
Yaoundé, Cameroon (PANA) – The Japanese government on Tuesday gave Cameroon a financial aid of US$4.9 million for UN agencies [...] Full text...
25 february 2019 - 17:59:34
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwandan authorities on Monday lifted the order to quarantine inmates afflicted by measles in Ngoma, a [...] Full text...
14 february 2019 - 20:26:47
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) – Cholera and measles, two epidemics that broke out in several provinces of DR Congo since [...] Full text...
06 february 2019 - 16:47:38
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The Rwanda Correctional Services (RCS) has decided to quarantine inmates infected by measles and [...] Full text...
02 february 2019 - 13:00:30
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) has donated six incubators and a respiratory assistance device to Benghazi [...] Full text...
28 january 2019 - 09:48:21
Tripoli, Libya(PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) has deployed 4 specialised medical teams in some Libyan cities in response [...] Full text...
22 january 2019 - 17:20:22
Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - Over 13 million children, aged between nine months and 14 years, were vaccinated against measles [...] Full text...