The United Nations Children\u2019s Fund (UNICEF) announced that 11.6 million Afghan children under the age of five received polio vaccinations in 2024, Afghanistan International reported. UNICEF is committed to eradicating polio in Afghanistan, and Tajudeen Oyewale, the organization’s representative in the country, shared these statistics on Tuesday. He emphasized that UNICEF, along with its partners, aims to vaccinate every Afghan child against polio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Polio remains a significant health threat in Afghanistan, with many children contracting the disease due to inadequate healthcare services. The World Health Organization (WHO) reported 25 polio cases in Afghanistan last year. Recently, the Taliban\u2019s Ministry of Public Health confirmed the first polio case of 2025, detected in a five-year-old child from Qarto village in the Balamorghab district of Badghis province.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The United Nations Children\u2019s Fund (UNICEF) announced that 11.6 million Afghan children under the age of five received polio vaccinations in 2024, Afghanistan International reported. UNICEF is committed to eradicating polio in Afghanistan, and Tajudeen Oyewale, the organization’s representative in the country, shared these statistics on Tuesday. He emphasized that UNICEF, along with its partners, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":121365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[3083,13331],"class_list":["post-121364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","tag-polio","tag-vaccination-of-afghan-children"],"yoast_head":"\n