{"id":27902,"date":"2025-03-26T01:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T01:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=27902"},"modified":"2025-03-26T01:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T01:51:07","slug":"unicef-vaccinated-11-6-million-afghan-children-against-polio-in-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2025\/03\/unicef-vaccinated-11-6-million-afghan-children-against-polio-in-last-year\/","title":{"rendered":"UNICEF vaccinated 11.6 million Afghan children against polio in last year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; In 2024 year, the United Nations Children&#8217;s Fund (UNICEF) in Afghanistan vaccinated 11.6 million children under the age of five against polio.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The head of UNICEF, Tajudeen Oyewale, stated in a post on X on Tuesday that the fight to eradicate polio in Afghanistan is not over yet.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He emphasized that UNICEF and its partners are committed to ensuring that every child receives the polio vaccine to protect them from the disease.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As of 2025, only one case of polio has been reported in Afghanistan, specifically in Badghis, a province located in the northwest of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Afghanistan and Pakistan are the only two countries in the world where polio has not been fully eradicated.<\/p>\n<h6><em><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2024 year, the United Nations Children&#8217;s Fund (UNICEF) in Afghanistan vaccinated 11.6 million children under the age of five against polio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":27903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,9,984,218,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-soceity","category-news","category-health","category-afghanistan","category-headline"],"views":39,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27902","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=27902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27904,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27902\/revisions\/27904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}