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Africa: Highlighting Need for Newborn Screening of Sickle Cell Disease in Africa

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[This Day] Annually, more than 300,000 babies in sub-Saharan Africa are born with sickle cell disease but many do not live past the age of five because they lack access to testing, comprehensive clinical care, and early intervention programs. Chiemelie Ezeobi writes that to tackle this, the American Society of Hematology is partnering governments, hospitals, industry partners, and organisations in Africa to build initiatives to improve the long-term health of children with SCD with the goal of screening 10,000 to 16,

Source: allAfrica.com

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