{"id":3050,"date":"2020-09-01T13:01:34","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T18:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/?p=3050"},"modified":"2021-01-26T13:21:18","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T18:21:18","slug":"joyful-milestone-in-fight-against-polio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/joyful-milestone-in-fight-against-polio\/","title":{"rendered":"Joyful Milestone in Fight Against Polio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-3051 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Polio-Eradication.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Polio-Eradication.jpg 800w, https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Polio-Eradication-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Polio-Eradication-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Polio-Eradication-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Polio-Eradication-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Polio-Eradication-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/>On August 25, 2020, the Africa <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Regional Certification <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Commission certified the WHO <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">African Region as wild polio-free <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">after four years without a <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">case. With this historic <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">milestone, five of the six WHO <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">regions \u2014 representing over 90 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">percent of the world\u2019s <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">population \u2014 are now free of <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">the wild poliovirus, moving the <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">world closer to achieving <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">global polio eradication.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Only two countries worldwide <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">continue to see wild poliovirus <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">transmission: Pakistan and <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Afghanistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Read more <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/detail\/25-08-2020-global-polio-eradication-initiative-applauds-who-african-region-for-wild-polio-free-certification\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Photo courtesy of CDC Global.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<span class=\"et_bloom_bottom_trigger\"><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 25, 2020, the Africa Regional Certification Commission certified the WHO African Region as wild polio-free after four years without a case. With this historic milestone, five of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[137,28],"tags":[42,171,289,365,383],"class_list":["post-3050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-justiceandpeace","category-latest-news","tag-africa","tag-jpic","tag-justice-and-peace","tag-justsice-peace","tag-polio"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Polio-Eradication.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}