{"id":17928,"date":"2024-01-29T11:08:56","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T11:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=17928"},"modified":"2024-01-29T11:23:20","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T11:23:20","slug":"polio-immunization-campaign-kicks-off-across-21-provinces-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/01\/polio-immunization-campaign-kicks-off-across-21-provinces-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Polio immunization campaign kicks off across 21 provinces in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KABUL (SW) &#8211; The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) has initiated the anti-polio vaccination campaign in 21 provinces of Afghanistan on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to officials from the MoPH, the four-day campaign, aims to administer the anti-polio vaccine to 7.5 million children under the age of five.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This campaign covers more than 200 districts and covers 7.5 million children,&#8221; said Abdul Qudus Baryalay, operational manager of the Polio Disease Control Center in the Ministry of Public Health.<\/p>\n<p>In the first round of the anti-polio vaccine campaign for the current solar year, the MoPH aims to address the rise in polio cases.<\/p>\n<p>According to 2023 statistics, Afghanistan has reported six cases of polio, compared to two cases recorded in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign seeks to vaccinate children under the age of five to prevent the further spread of polio.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that Afghanistan and Pakistan are the only countries where polio has not yet completely disappeared.<\/p>\n<h6><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) &#8211; The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) has initiated the anti-polio vaccination campaign in 21 provinces of Afghanistan on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":17932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,1,984,16,218,8,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-0_swnen","category-news","category-report","category-health","category-governance","category-afghanistan","category-headline"],"views":60,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17928"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17934,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17928\/revisions\/17934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}