{"id":20674,"date":"2026-08-30T05:47:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T05:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/30\/afghanistan-aid-cuts-close-over-100-health-centres\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T05:47:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T05:47:41","slug":"afghanistan-aid-cuts-close-over-100-health-centres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/30\/afghanistan-aid-cuts-close-over-100-health-centres\/","title":{"rendered":"Aid Cuts in Afghanistan Shut More Than 100 Health Centres, UN Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations has said that cuts to humanitarian aid funding in Afghanistan have led to the closure of more than 100 health centres and have further restricted children suffering from malnutrition from accessing vital treatment and nutritional services.<\/p>\n<p>Melissa Fleming, the UN under-secretary-general for global communications, wrote on her X account on Saturday, 7 Sunbula, that 3.7 million children in Afghanistan are facing acute malnutrition.<\/p>\n<p>According to her, about 1 million children in Afghanistan are struggling with severe, life-threatening malnutrition. She warned that the closure of these centres has made it harder for these children to access essential treatment and nutrition services.<\/p>\n<p>The UN reported this situation as, according to the body, millions of children in Afghanistan still depend on humanitarian aid to receive medical and nutritional services.<\/p>\n<p>Acute malnutrition is considered one of the most serious health crises in Afghanistan, and many child treatment and nutrition services in different parts of the country are provided with support from humanitarian organisations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN says aid cuts in Afghanistan have closed over 100 health centres and deepened malnutrition among children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20674","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\/20674","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=20674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}