{"id":24564,"date":"2026-10-24T06:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T06:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/24\/afghanistan-polio-vaccination-child-cases-world-polio-day\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T06:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T06:00:16","slug":"afghanistan-polio-vaccination-child-cases-world-polio-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/24\/afghanistan-polio-vaccination-child-cases-world-polio-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan polio body urges continued child vaccination campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Afghanistan Free of Polio organisation, marking World Polio Day, stressed the importance of sustaining efforts to eradicate the disease in the country. In a message, it called on families to prioritise vaccinating their children and protect them against the polio virus.<\/p>\n<p>The organisation said every child has the right to grow up without fear of contracting the disease, and that widespread child vaccination plays a vital role in securing a polio-free future. It also said World Polio Day, observed every year on October 24, is important for raising public awareness and strengthening vaccination campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan and Pakistan remain the only two countries in the world where polio has not been eradicated. According to the World Health Organization, the number of polio cases in Afghanistan has reached 42 this year alone, six of them newly recorded.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban administration has so far not taken any significant action to address the challenges caused by the spread of the disease. The continued spread of polio points to weak health interventions and delays in nationwide vaccination, posing a serious threat to the health of Afghanistan&#8217;s children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan\u2019s polio body urges families to vaccinate children as the country reports 42 cases this year, according to WHO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-important-news","category-secondary-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24564","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=24564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}