{"id":76621,"date":"2025-06-21T11:49:39","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T11:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=76621"},"modified":"2025-06-21T11:49:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T11:49:39","slug":"nigeria-records-highest-cases-of-sickle-cell-globally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/06\/21\/nigeria-records-highest-cases-of-sickle-cell-globally\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria records highest cases of sickle cell globally"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-43866\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Sickle-Cell-4-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Sickle-Cell-4-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Sickle-Cell-4.png 1024w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Sickle-Cell-4-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Sickle-Cell-4-770x770.png 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Sickle-Cell-4-293x293.png 293w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Sickle-Cell-4-360x360.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nigeria has the highest number of newborns affected by\u00a0<a class=\"google-anno\" href=\"https:\/\/thecitizenng.com\/nigeria-records-highest-cases-of-sickle-cell-globally\/#\" data-google-vignette=\"false\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\">\u00a0<span class=\"google-anno-t\">sickle<\/span><\/a> cell disease worldwide, with around 150,000 cases annually, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School <a href=\"https:\/\/thecitizenng.com\/nigeria-records-highest-cases-of-sickle-cell-globally\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Nigeria has the highest number of newborns affected by\u00a0\u00a0sickle cell disease worldwide, with around 150,000 cases annually, Associate Professor of Medicine at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[207],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-76621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sickle-cell"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Sickle-Cell-Foundation-of-Nigeria.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76622,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76621\/revisions\/76622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}