{"id":196488,"date":"2025-04-21T11:32:33","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T09:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/west-africa-polio-campaign-nigeria-chad-niger-others-to-vaccinate-83-million-children\/"},"modified":"2025-04-21T11:32:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T09:32:33","slug":"west-africa-polio-campaign-nigeria-chad-niger-others-to-vaccinate-83-million-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/west-africa-polio-campaign-nigeria-chad-niger-others-to-vaccinate-83-million-children\/","title":{"rendered":"West Africa: Polio Campaign &#8211; Nigeria, Chad, Niger Others to Vaccinate 83 Million Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\"><em>* As UNICEF, Adamawa govt urge parents to immunise children against polio<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">In a renewed effort to eradicate circulating polio variant type 2 in the Lake Chad Basin, Ministers of Health from Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, Niger and Nigeria has launched a synchronized regional vaccination campaign aimed at protecting 83 million under-5 children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The initiative is a crucial milestone in the fight against variant poliovirus type 2, which continues to pose a threat to millions of children&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504210048.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Cameroon\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/cameroon\/\">Cameroon<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* As UNICEF, Adamawa govt urge parents to immunise children against polio In a renewed effort to eradicate circulating polio variant type 2 in the Lake Chad Basin, Ministers of Health from Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, Niger and Nigeria has launched a synchronized regional vaccination campaign aimed at protecting 83 million under-5 children. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":196489,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[258,256,377,4302,4699,7371,5118,257,404,4687,5799,254,19153,4375],"class_list":["post-196488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cameroon-news","tag-campaign","tag-chad","tag-children","tag-million","tag-news","tag-niger","tag-nigeria","tag-polio","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vaccinate","tag-west"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/196488","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=196488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}