{"id":18415,"date":"2026-07-26T08:45:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T08:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/26\/un-2026-budget-cuts-threaten-afghan-nutrition-programs\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T08:45:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T08:45:15","slug":"un-2026-budget-cuts-threaten-afghan-nutrition-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/26\/un-2026-budget-cuts-threaten-afghan-nutrition-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Office Warns 2026 Funding Cuts Threaten Nutrition Programs for Millions of Afghan Children and Mothers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has announced that funding reductions in 2026 could disrupt nutrition programs for 5.7 million children and mothers in Afghanistan. According to the agency, without immediate financial support, millions in the country may lose access to vital health care and nutrition services, a situation that could deepen the malnutrition crisis. Previously, the United Nations Children&#8217;s Fund (UNICEF) warned in a report that 3.7 million children in Afghanistan face an increasing risk of malnutrition due to food insecurity. International aid organizations are raising alarms about budget shortages as Afghanistan continues to grapple with a widespread humanitarian crisis, poverty, and declining access to basic health services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN warns 2026 budget cuts could disrupt nutrition programs for 5.7 million Afghan children and mothers, worsening malnutrition amid ongoing humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-important-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}