{"id":66801,"date":"2024-09-18T01:42:06","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T16:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/sep\/17\/taliban-curbs-women-risk-polio-outbreak-vaccination-campaign-health-officials-warn"},"modified":"2024-09-18T01:42:06","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T16:42:06","slug":"talibans-curbs-on-women-add-to-risk-of-polio-outbreak-health-officials-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66801","title":{"rendered":"Taliban\u2019s curbs on women add to risk of polio outbreak, health officials warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regime suspends polio campaign across Afghanistan over security concerns and women\u2019s role in vaccination drive<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan is at risk of a polio outbreak, health officials have warned, after the Taliban suspended the vaccination campaign over security fears and restrictions on women.<\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organization (WHO) has <a href=\"https:\/\/uploads.guim.co.uk\/2024\/09\/17\/EMR_Polio_Bulletin_Issue_1353_Week_36-2024.pdf\">confirmed 18 new cases<\/a> of polio infection in the country so far this year, a significant increase from the six cases reported in 2023. Local healthcare workers say these numbers could be higher as many cases will not yet have been detected.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/sep\/17\/taliban-curbs-women-risk-polio-outbreak-vaccination-campaign-health-officials-warn\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regime suspends polio campaign across Afghanistan over security concerns and women\u2019s role in vaccination driveAfghanistan is at risk of a polio outbreak, health officials have warned, after the Taliban suspended the vaccination campaign over security f&#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":[46,59,566,346,900,79,61,44,565,1045,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66801","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-world-health-organization","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66801","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=66801"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66819,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66801\/revisions\/66819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}