{"id":284652,"date":"2017-01-13T15:47:21","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T15:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=284652"},"modified":"2017-01-13T15:47:21","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T15:47:21","slug":"vaccination-drive-to-protect-4-million-nigerian-children-gets-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=284652","title":{"rendered":"Vaccination drive to protect 4 million Nigerian children gets underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A measles vaccination campaign to protect more than four million children living in conflict-affected areas of Nigeria is due to begin on Friday, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).<br id=\"0.5092390961885969\" \/><br id=\"0.8770495663673756\" \/>The two-week campaign will target all children aged between 6 months, and 10-years-old in accessible areas of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states.<br id=\"0.019466714465380397\" \/><br id=\"0.5026376978701406\" \/>A humanitarian and economic crisis is on-going across north-east Nigeria due to years of conflict between the Boko Haram extremist group, which is based in the region, and government forces.<br id=\"0.2993049846406324\" \/><br id=\"0.24939083264545991\" \/>Measles is a highly-contagious and sometimes deadly disease said WHO, and &#8220;massive disruption&#8221; in health services in conflict-affected areas has delayed vaccination programs.<br id=\"0.9142681374430317\" \/><br id=\"0.9216556837384589\" \/>Many children are also suffering severe malnutrition, making them more vulnerable to disease.<br id=\"0.2757848797088591\" \/><br id=\"0.020105163708569185\" \/>WHO is working with the government health care agencies in each of the three states, along with the UN Children&#8217;s Fund (UNICEF) and other partner agencies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br id=\"0.07104178616084678\" \/><br id=\"0.6919608569423268\" \/>Source: UN Radio<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A measles vaccination campaign to protect more than four million children living in conflict-affected areas of Nigeria is due to begin on Friday, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).The two-week campaign will target all children aged between 6 months, and 10-years-old in accessible areas of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states.A humanitarian and economic crisis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=284652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=284652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=284652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=284652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}