{"id":21992,"date":"2026-09-16T16:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T16:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/16\/afghanistan-nationwide-polio-vaccination-campaign-monday\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T16:00:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T16:00:24","slug":"afghanistan-nationwide-polio-vaccination-campaign-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/16\/afghanistan-nationwide-polio-vaccination-campaign-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationwide polio vaccination campaign to begin in Afghanistan on Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Afghanistan Free of Polio organisation has announced that a new polio vaccination campaign will begin on Monday, Sept. 30, in all provinces of Afghanistan, a move taken amid continuing concerns over the reporting of positive cases of the disease in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The organisation said on Wednesday, Sept. 25, on its X page that the programme will be held in the southern region one day later, on Tuesday next week. According to the organisation, the campaign will cover the whole country.<\/p>\n<p>The Afghanistan Free of Polio organisation reiterated that the polio vaccine is a safe and effective way to protect children against polio. It has called on families to vaccinate their children during the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes as public health officials of the Taliban administration in Nangarhar recently reported five positive polio cases in the province. Polio, or infant paralysis, is a viral disease that mainly affects children, and vaccination is considered one of the main ways to prevent it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan will launch a nationwide polio vaccination campaign on Monday amid concerns over new positive cases in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21992","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\/21992","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=21992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}