{"id":25126,"date":"2026-10-31T16:10:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T16:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/31\/afghanistan-nationwide-polio-vaccination-campaign-children\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T16:10:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T16:10:21","slug":"afghanistan-nationwide-polio-vaccination-campaign-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/31\/afghanistan-nationwide-polio-vaccination-campaign-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationwide Polio Vaccination Campaign Launched Across Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Afghanistan Polio-Free Initiative has urged families to participate in the nationwide polio vaccination campaign starting Monday, November 1, across Afghanistan. The organization emphasized that every family must play an active role in eradicating poliomyelitis in the country.<\/p>\n<p>This campaign takes place while Afghanistan remains one of the two countries where the poliovirus is still present, posing a threat to the health of Afghan children. The initiative has called on citizens to cooperate by vaccinating their children to help control and prevent the spread of this disease.<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations Children&#8217;s Fund (UNICEF) also reported that so far, 12.7 million children in Afghanistan have been vaccinated against polio, but efforts continue to reach all children and complete the full vaccination coverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan launches a nationwide polio vaccination campaign to protect children, urging families to participate and UNICEF reports 12.7 million vaccinated so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25126","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\/25126","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=25126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}