{"id":232275,"date":"2026-05-04T04:07:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T02:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-over-two-million-girls-vaccinated-against-cervical-cancer\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T04:07:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T02:07:57","slug":"mozambique-over-two-million-girls-vaccinated-against-cervical-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-over-two-million-girls-vaccinated-against-cervical-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Over Two Million Girls Vaccinated Against Cervical Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Maputo \u2014 The Mozambican health authorities vaccinated, in 2025, at least 2.9 million girls aged 12 to 18 against cervical cancer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">According to the Health Minister, Ussene Isse, speaking on Monday, in the southern municipality of Matola, at the launch of African Immunization Week, although a large number of people were covered, there are still challenges in reaching remote areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The minister said that, over the last year, 3.5 million people were vaccinated against cholera. He also announced the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604280072.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maputo \u2014 The Mozambican health authorities vaccinated, in 2025, at least 2.9 million girls aged 12 to 18 against cervical cancer. According to the Health Minister, Ussene Isse, speaking on Monday, in the southern municipality of Matola, at the launch of African Immunization Week, although a large number of people were covered, there are still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":232276,"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":[654],"tags":[258,256,6808,6807,7010,5118,4704,682,257,254,12662],"class_list":["post-232275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cancer","tag-cervical","tag-girls","tag-million","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vaccinated"],"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\/232275","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}