{"id":16979,"date":"2025-12-10T07:28:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T07:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=16979"},"modified":"2025-12-10T07:28:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T07:28:58","slug":"the-role-of-scholars-community-leaders-and-media-is-vital-in-preventing-polio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2025\/12\/10\/the-role-of-scholars-community-leaders-and-media-is-vital-in-preventing-polio\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The role of scholars, community leaders, and media is vital in preventing Polio&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: Minister of Public Health Mawlavi Noor Jalal Jalali, during an informational session for journalists and spokespersons from sectoral organizations about &#8220;Polio Status and the Role of Media&#8221; stated that polio is an &#8220;incurable&#8221; disease and unfortunately still exists in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Radio Omid correspondent, Minister Jalali noted that compared to last year, positive polio cases have increased this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He mentioned that so far this year, nine positive cases have been recorded, with a recent positive case reported in a region of the eastern zone just three months ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mawlavi Noor Jalal Jalali emphasized the crucial role of scholars, community leaders, media, and social influencers in preventing poliovirus outbreaks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He stated that misinformation, negative propaganda, and baseless claims regarding the polio vaccine weaken the execution of vaccination campaigns and pose a risk for the spread of the disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Minister of Public Health reiterated that polio is still not treatable and that prevention is the&nbsp;only&nbsp;solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: Minister of Public Health Mawlavi Noor Jalal Jalali, during an informational session for journalists and spokespersons from sectoral organizations about &#8220;Polio Status and the Role of Media&#8221; stated that polio is an &#8220;incurable&#8221; disease and unfortunately still exists in Afghanistan. According to Radio Omid correspondent, Minister Jalali noted that compared to last year, positive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[76],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16985,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16979\/revisions\/16985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}