{"id":29874,"date":"2026-05-18T05:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T05:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=29874"},"modified":"2026-05-18T05:39:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T05:39:23","slug":"8-3-million-children-will-receive-polio-vaccination-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2026\/05\/8-3-million-children-will-receive-polio-vaccination-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"8.3 million children will receive Polio vaccination in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Ministry of Public Health of the Islamic Emirate has announced that a sub-national polio vaccination campaign begins today across 20 provinces.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a statement released on Monday (18 May), the ministry said the polio vaccination campaign will continue for four days, during which 8.3 million children will receive the polio vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>According to the ministry, the campaign in Kandahar, Helmand, Uruzgan, and Zabul provinces will continue from 19 to 22 May.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Polio-Free Afghanistan agency called on families on Saturday to help eliminate the disease by ensuring that their children receive the vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second round of the sub-national polio vaccination campaign in Afghanistan in the current year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Public Health of the Islamic Emirate has announced that a sub-national polio vaccination campaign begins today across 20 provinces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":29876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,218,984,9,990],"tags":[12,1159,260,1165],"class_list":["post-29874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-health","category-news","category-soceity","category-latest","tag-afghanistan","tag-campaign","tag-polio","tag-vaccination"],"views":7,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29874","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29875,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29874\/revisions\/29875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}