{"id":182753,"date":"2024-10-18T00:42:16","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T22:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-to-take-delivery-of-anticipated-malaria-vaccine\/"},"modified":"2024-10-18T00:42:16","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T22:42:16","slug":"nigeria-to-take-delivery-of-anticipated-malaria-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-to-take-delivery-of-anticipated-malaria-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria to Take Delivery of Anticipated Malaria Vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\"><em>The malaria vaccine is expected to be delivered to Nigeria in Abuja by the WHO.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Nigeria is set to receive its first consignment of the highly anticipated malaria vaccines on Thursday, marking a significant step in the country&#8217;s fight against one of its deadliest diseases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/nphcda.gov.ng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA)<\/a><\/strong> announced that the vaccine, known as RTS,S\/AS01 (Mosquirix), would be received in Abuja by Muhammad Ali Pate, the Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\"...<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410170447.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The malaria vaccine is expected to be delivered to Nigeria in Abuja by the WHO. Nigeria is set to receive its first consignment of the highly anticipated malaria vaccines on Thursday, marking a significant step in the country&#8217;s fight against one of its deadliest diseases. The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) announced that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":182754,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,7380,8532,7993,257,4687,393,254,13567],"class_list":["post-182753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-anticipated","tag-delivery","tag-malaria","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vaccine"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}