The Life of a Sickle Cell Warrior.
By Sharice Bradford/ Defender Contributing Editor Posted September 5, 2018 September is the month where we celebrate Baby Safety, Blood Cancer Awareness, Childhood Cancer, and Prostate Health Month. There are many other observances that get the recognition and funding that awareness brings. One specific illness that is recognized in September...
Sickle Cell Treatments Can Destroy Germ Cells in Boys, Affecting Fertility in Adulthood, Study Suggests BY KARA ELAM Sickle Cell Treatments Can Destroy Germ Cells in Boys, Affecting Fertility in Adulthood, Study Suggests Some treatments for sickle cell disease or cancer can destroy germ cells that later develop into...
There’s a school of thought that believes that passing a bill on sickle cell on compulsory genotype testing before marriage, is key in curbing sickle cell, especially in Africa. Just recently, a bill on genotype testing before marriage was passed was passed in Anambra state, Nigeria. See Video clip confirming...
By News Agency of Nigeria -June 20, 2018 The Sickle Cell Support Network, an NGO, says Nigeria records about 150,000 sickle cell births annually but 75 per cent of this number never get to see their fifth birthday. The President of the group, Dr. Deborah Onokpono, made this known in...
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...
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by Audrey Mukoro · Published July 8, 2018 · Last modified July 17, 2018
Evil exists because good people do nothing. Many times what many “so-called good people” do is react to evil verbally and i.e. talk and do nothing, especially in social media. Sicklers in Nigeria are marginalized, we are suppressed, oppressed and neglected because of our health status. As a warrior and...
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by Audrey Mukoro · Published June 20, 2018 · Last modified June 21, 2018
The People of Warri joins the rest of the world to celebrate World Sickle Cell Awareness Day. The reality is that thousands of Nigerians are under the clutches of the deadly sickle cell disease, caused by ignorance or love unwantintin. Truth is, the pleasures of love are paltry when you...
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...
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