Sickle cell & young stroke survivors

Sickle Cell in Africa ? The forgotten Disease.

Sickle Cell in Africa ? The forgotten Disease. Sickle Cell and Young Stroke Survivors have begun an African project to help provide information, advice, support, creating awareness and teaching coping skills to children, young people and their families as well as encouraging the public to find out what their genotype is so that Sickle births can be prevented. According to the World Health Organisation's map, Nigeria is one of the worst affected countries in the world, where it has been estimated that 1:4 have Sickle Cell disease. As the health care system is inadequate and poorly mana ...