{"id":19488,"date":"2026-08-10T18:17:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T18:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/10\/afghanistan-multi-vaccine-campaign-children-protection\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T18:17:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T18:17:22","slug":"afghanistan-multi-vaccine-campaign-children-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/10\/afghanistan-multi-vaccine-campaign-children-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Simultaneous Multi-Vaccine Campaign Launched to Protect Afghan Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The organization &#8216;Afghanistan Polio-Free&#8217; has announced the launch of a Simultaneous Multi-Antigen Campaign (MAAC) to protect children against dangerous diseases.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, August 10, the organization emphasized that during this program, children will receive various vaccines based on their age and health needs to prevent preventable illnesses.<\/p>\n<p>According to the organization, children who have not yet received any vaccines or whose vaccine doses remain incomplete must be taken by their families to health centers to complete their vaccination schedule.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign administers oral polio vaccine, inactivated polio vaccine, measles, pentavalent, tuberculosis, and diarrhea vaccines to children. Previously, &#8216;Afghanistan Polio-Free&#8217; urged families to cooperate with healthcare workers to ensure all eligible children are fully covered by vaccinations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan launches a multi-vaccine campaign to safeguard children from polio, measles, tuberculosis, and other preventable diseases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19488","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\/19488","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=19488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}