{"id":83620,"date":"2026-01-16T11:07:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T11:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=83620"},"modified":"2026-01-16T11:07:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T11:07:02","slug":"nigeria-how-300-cost-spike-drug-rationing-turn-diabetes-to-death-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/16\/nigeria-how-300-cost-spike-drug-rationing-turn-diabetes-to-death-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: How 300% cost spike, drug rationing turn diabetes to death threat"},"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 decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Diabetes-Overview-1-768x768-1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>With 30,000 to 40,000 yearly diabetes-induced deaths occasioned by over 300 per cent increment in medication cost, unhealthy religious and cultural beliefs, and inadequate care facilities,\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/features\/health\/how-300-cost-spike-drug-rationing-turn-diabetes-to-death-threat\/\">Read More<\/a><\/strong><\/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>With 30,000 to 40,000 yearly diabetes-induced deaths occasioned by over 300 per cent increment in medication cost, unhealthy religious and cultural beliefs,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83620","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Diabetes-Nigeria.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83620","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=83620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83622,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83620\/revisions\/83622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}