The Life of a Sickle Cell Warrior.
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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...
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...
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...
I am a Sickle Advocate, a Warrior and the face of sickle cell. My name is Onuoha Chinonyerem Obianuju. The first of five children from Mr Maurice and Mrs Angela Onuoha, 4 girls and a boy. I am from IMO state. Unlike most unaware people, my Dad was aware of...
Who Says Warriors (sicklers) cant live to old age? Join me, lets take a peep at Mama Laguda who has lived well over 90 years in this obodo Nigeria, nor be abroad. Alhaja Ashiata Abike Onikoyi nee Laguda’s was born with Sickle Cell anemia. At that time, no-one expected her...
Alberta woman 1st adult in Canada to be ‘cured’ of sickle cell anemia through a stem cell transplant Revée Agyepong of Edmonton underwent the procedure at the Calgary cancer center with donor cells from sister. An Alberta woman is the first adult in Canada to be cured of sickle cell...
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