{"id":189543,"date":"2025-01-25T01:38:51","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T23:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-achieves-who-regional-target-for-hepatitis-b-control\/"},"modified":"2025-01-25T01:38:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T23:38:51","slug":"egypt-achieves-who-regional-target-for-hepatitis-b-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-achieves-who-regional-target-for-hepatitis-b-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt Achieves WHO Regional Target for Hepatitis B Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Egypt&#8217;s Minister of Health and Population Khaled Abdel Ghaffar announced that the country has met the regional target for hepatitis B control set by the WHO&#8217;s Regional Committee during its 56th session, as per a Cabinet statement on Thursday 23\/1\/2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">He made these remarks following a review and verification by the WHO Regional Committee, which assessed Egypt&#8217;s efforts to combat hepatitis B and C, as well as the elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, hepatitis B, and syphilis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">WHO&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501240046.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt&#8217;s Minister of Health and Population Khaled Abdel Ghaffar announced that the country has met the regional target for hepatitis B control set by the WHO&#8217;s Regional Committee during its 56th session, as per a Cabinet statement on Thursday 23\/1\/2025. He made these remarks following a review and verification by the WHO Regional Committee, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":189544,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn07.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00621682:90783eac6e281134fd8726fb3e86734b:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[18757,258,256,6877,4697,415,13111,257,4268,254,7594],"class_list":["post-189543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-achieves","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-control","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-hepatitis","tag-news","tag-regional","tag-south-africa-today","tag-target"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn07.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00621682:90783eac6e281134fd8726fb3e86734b:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189543","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}