{"id":31173,"date":"2021-04-21T15:30:02","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T06:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/apr\/21\/killing-of-female-polio-vaccinators-puts-afghan-eradication-campaign-at-risk"},"modified":"2021-04-21T15:30:02","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T06:30:02","slug":"killing-of-female-polio-vaccinators-puts-afghan-eradication-campaign-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31173","title":{"rendered":"Killing of female polio vaccinators puts Afghan eradication campaign at risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rise in cases feared as murders halt campaigns and leave many women too afraid to work<\/p>\n<p>Gul Meena Hotak was on her regular rounds, going door-to-door giving polio vaccinations in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, when she heard gunshots.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old\u2019s immediate concern was for the safety of her friend Negina and other colleagues nearby. \u201cNegina and my supervisor were in a neighbourhood close by when a gunman approached and shot at them. My supervisor escaped with gunshot injuries, but Negina was killed on the spot,\u201d Hotak said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/apr\/21\/killing-of-female-polio-vaccinators-puts-afghan-eradication-campaign-at-risk\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rise in cases feared as murders halt campaigns and leave many women too afraid to workGul Meena Hotak was on her regular rounds, going door-to-door giving polio vaccinations in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, when she heard gunshots.The 22-year-o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1373,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,59,566,346,900,79,61,44,565,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-global-development","category-global-health","category-health","category-polio","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-vaccines-and-immunisation","category-women","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31174,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31173\/revisions\/31174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}