{"id":231788,"date":"2026-04-29T16:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudans-federal-ministry-of-health-leads-nationwide-polio-vaccination-campaign-to-protect-over-4-3-million-children\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T16:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T14:00:08","slug":"sudans-federal-ministry-of-health-leads-nationwide-polio-vaccination-campaign-to-protect-over-4-3-million-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudans-federal-ministry-of-health-leads-nationwide-polio-vaccination-campaign-to-protect-over-4-3-million-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan&#8217;s Federal Ministry of Health Leads Nationwide Polio Vaccination Campaign to Protect Over 4.3 Million Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">28 April 2026, Khartoum, Sudan &#8211; The Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH), in close collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children&#8217;s Fund (UNICEF), has launched a nationwide polio vaccination campaign targeting more than 4.3 million children under-5 years across 7 states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">This large-scale campaign &#8211; led and coordinated by the FMOH &#8211; is the first of two planned rounds and will cover Gedaref, Gezira, Kassala, Khartoum, North Kordofan, Sennar, and White Nile&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604290225.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>28 April 2026, Khartoum, Sudan &#8211; The Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH), in close collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children&#8217;s Fund (UNICEF), has launched a nationwide polio vaccination campaign targeting more than 4.3 million children under-5 years across 7 states. This large-scale campaign &#8211; led and coordinated by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":231789,"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":[784],"tags":[258,256,4302,7371,8731,5731,9429,5118,6857,8617,257,5799,6202,254,1613,8105,14083],"class_list":["post-231788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-campaign","tag-children","tag-federal","tag-health","tag-leads","tag-million","tag-ministry","tag-nationwide","tag-news","tag-polio","tag-protect","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudans","tag-vaccination"],"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\/231788","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=231788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}