{"id":43992,"date":"2026-08-28T10:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T08:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=43992"},"modified":"2026-08-28T10:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T08:14:12","slug":"malawi-exceeds-national-polio-vaccination-target","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/malawi-exceeds-national-polio-vaccination-target\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi exceeds national polio vaccination target \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi has surpassed its national targets in its latest polio vaccination drive, reaching more than 7.3 million children under the age of 10 across the country.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The nationwide campaign, conducted between August 11 and 14, exceeded its initial target of 7 million children, according to a statement released by the Ministry of Health&#8217;s Principal Secretary, Dr Dan Namalika.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry praised health workers, volunteers, local partners, and community leaders, including traditional and religious figures, for their roles in driving public participation and penetrating hard-to-reach rural areas.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Health authorities confirmed that post-campaign monitoring will continue alongside routine immunization efforts to maintain national protection against wild polio and vaccine-derived strains across border districts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":24128,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-43992","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Over seven million children vaccinated against polio in Malawi","published_date":"2026-08-28 10:13:02","news_description":"Over seven million children vaccinated against polio in Malawi","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/43992","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\/43992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43993,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/43992\/revisions\/43993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=43992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}