{"id":27361,"date":"2025-02-22T09:34:51","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T09:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=27361"},"modified":"2025-02-22T09:34:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T09:34:51","slug":"afghanistan-kicks-off-polio-vaccination-drives-as-first-case-of-the-year-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2025\/02\/afghanistan-kicks-off-polio-vaccination-drives-as-first-case-of-the-year-strikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan kicks off polio vaccination drives as first case of the year strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KABUL (SW) &#8211; The organization &#8220;Polio Free Afghanistan&#8221; has announced the commencement of a new campaign to administer polio vaccines in the country, set to begin this Monday, February 24.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This initiative aims to strengthen efforts against the virus and protect children.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement shared on X, the organization said that the campaign will take place in various regions of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>However, the organization did not specify how many children under the age of five will receive the vaccine during this round.<\/p>\n<p>Polio remains endemic in Afghanistan, and just yesterday\u2014Friday, February 21\u2014the first case of the disease in the current year was recorded in Badghis.<\/p>\n<h6><em><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The organization &#8220;Polio Free Afghanistan&#8221; has announced the commencement of a new campaign to administer polio vaccines in the country, set to begin this Monday, February 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":27362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,218,8,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-health","category-governance","category-afghanistan","category-headline"],"views":43,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27361","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=27361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27363,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27361\/revisions\/27363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}