{"id":33188,"date":"2026-04-28T12:10:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T10:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=33188"},"modified":"2026-04-28T12:10:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T10:10:20","slug":"sa-province-child-immunisation-drops-to-75","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-province-child-immunisation-drops-to-75\/","title":{"rendered":"SA province child immunisation drops to 75%"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">The Gauteng Department of Health in South Africa (SA) says child immunisation has fallen to 75%in the province, putting children under one year old at greater risk of preventable diseases.<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>As Africa marks African Vaccination Week, the department has urged parents to keep vaccinations on schedule.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Assistant Director for Expanded Program on Immunisation and Communicable Diseases control, Yolandie Luther says, \u201cUnfortunately, social media is our biggest threat at the moment, and people believe Google and the AI platforms more readily than they do the medical health professionals. And unfortunately, when you Google immunisation, the first thing that comes up is myths and half-truths, and unfortunately, people believe that.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u2014SABC\u2014<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":33045,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-33188","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"As Africa marks African Vaccination Week, the department has urged parents to keep vaccinations on schedule.","published_date":"","news_description":"As Africa marks African Vaccination Week, the department has urged parents to keep vaccinations on schedule.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/33188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/33188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33189,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/33188\/revisions\/33189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=33188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}