The Life of a Sickle Cell Warrior.
“My name is Makinde Titilayo Ololade Pearl, a final year student of the University of Ilorin studying Biology Education, the founder of Pearl Sickle Cell Foundation and also CEO of Pearl Revamp. I am a warrior with genotype HBSC, from Osun state based in Abuja. Was diagnosed of sickle...
Audrey Sickle Cell Foundation (ASCF), was born out of the experience of Audrey Mukoro who suffers from Sickle Cell Disease. I noticed that in my community and city, the issue of sickle cell is downplayed and victims presented as the mistakes of their parents whose burden rest solely on the...
Credited to: Salma M. AlDallal Abstract Osteomyelitis is an infectious stage of bones associated with distinct clinical microbiology. In sickle cell anemia, an early detection and diagnostic accuracy of osteomyelitis would establish an immediate treatment module for preventing bone destruction and deformity. This mini-review highlights the different diagnostic...
Bone Pain Crisis is the most consistent, a characteristic in SCD. The pain results from activation of nociceptive afferent nerve endings in the ischemic bones. The affected bones include the long bones such as femur and humerus, vertebrae, pelvis, ribs, and sternum. An early appearance of bone infarction...
BY: DELLIA RISMAY June 19th , 2018, marked the first recognized National Sickle Cell Awareness Day in Canada. The country is the first in the world to legally recognize the day. To honor its significance, the Sickle Cell Awareness Group of Ontario, also known as SCAGO, invited those affected...
ByTosin Ogunyemi -June 24, 2018 Sickle Cell Nigeria In commemoration of the 2018 World Sickle Cell Day, the Sickle Cell Foundation of Nigeria has lauded the Lagos State government for donating N200m for the establishment of a bone marrow transplant unit at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH). The foundation’s...
By Jackie Gogo -June 23, 2018 Mrs. Stella-Maris Imasuen (left) flanked by Prof. Mrs. Caroline Omoti, presenting selfcare tool kits to sickle cell sufferers The Board Chairman of Edo State Sickle Cell Centre, Prof. (Mrs.) Caroline Omoti, has raised the alarm over a steady increase in the number of sickle...
There are several types of sickle cell disease. The most common are Sickle Cell Anemia (SS), Sickle Hemoglobin-C Disease (SC), Sickle Beta-Plus Thalassemia and Sickle Beta-Zero Thalassemia. • Sickle Cell Anemia (SS): When a child inherits one substitution beta globin genes (the sickle cell gene) from each parent, the child...
By NewsGazette Children with sickle cell disease branded witches, marked for death Parents and relations of children living with sickle cell disease in Cameroon have gone on the offensive by labeling them ‘sorcerers’ and meting death sentences to them. Parents who do not have the nerves to murder their own...
World Sickle Cell Day 2018 will be celebrated all over the world on Tuesday the 19th of June. WORLD SICKLE CELL DAY HISTORY World Sickle Cell Day was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 2008 in order to increase the awareness about the sickle cell disease and its...
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