{"id":155612,"date":"2021-12-13T16:00:35","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T08:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=155612"},"modified":"2021-12-13T16:04:23","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T08:04:23","slug":"afghanistan-launches-polio-vaccination-targeting-9-9-million-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=155612","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan Launches Polio Vaccination Targeting 9.9 Million Children"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL, Dec 13 (NNN-ANA) &#8211; The Afghan Public Health Ministry, launched a campaign today, to give polio vaccination doses to millions of children under the age of five, the ministry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The campaign is the last polio vaccination drive in 2021. It will continue in two weeks. This week it will cover 21 of Afghanistan&#8217;s 34 provinces. The next drive will cover 13 provinces of Kandahar, Helmand, Nimroz, Zabul, Uruzgan, Nangarhar, Kunar, Nuristan, Laghman, Ghazni, Paktika, Balkh, and Ghor,&#8221; the ministry said, in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Technically and financially supported by the United Nations International Children&#8217;s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), and the World Health Organisation (WHO), the campaign will cover 9.9 million Afghan children, the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Afghanistan and the neighbouring Pakistan, are the only two countries in the world, that polio cases are reported every year, according to the statement.&#8211; NNN-ANA <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL, Dec 13 (NNN-ANA) &#8211; The Afghan Public Health Ministry, launched a campaign today, to give polio vaccination doses to millions of children under the age of five, the ministry said. &#8220;The campaign is the last polio vaccination drive in 2021. It will continue in two weeks. This week it will cover 21 of Afghanistan&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":155614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,286,198],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155612"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/155614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}