The Life of a Sickle Cell Warrior.
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...
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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...
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...
My name is Oduntan Akintude, born into a family of four and am the last living with SCD. I am a graduate of cell biology and genetics from university of Lagos and working in Lagos State University Teaching Hospital. Life as a warrior hasn’t been a bed of roses because...
1st Annual Sickle Cell Walk in Warri!!!! Let’s do this!!! Come Out to help create awareness! To debunk sickle cell myths! To encourage warriors! Let’s walk to those who lost the fight! To stop stigma and discrimination! To show support to those who suffer from sickle cell! To give help...
Join us on Sat. June 16th for our first annual Sickle Cell Walk in Warri, Move for Sickle Cell Disease! Sickle cell disease is not just about pain. It is also about strength. With a supportive community, people living with sickle cell or warriors as we refer ourselves can come...
Priapism is a prolonged erection of the penis. The persistent erection continues hours beyond and is not as a result of by sexual stimulation or desires. Priapism is usually painful. Although priapism is an uncommon condition overall, it occurs commonly in certain groups, such as people who have sickle cell...
Dear Diary, I am so sorry, I have not written for a while, I have been engrossed with plans for Walk for life. An annual awareness walk for warriors. It’s our first project as an organization. However, not giving an excuse, but everything is always easy before it’s done. Recent...
Caleb Ugbo is a 32 year old warrior, a blogger and a photographer who like other warriors has an ocean full of ups and downs the baggage that comes along with being a sickler. As a child, living with SCD, the hospital was my home…. “I go in and out...
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