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Global Handwashing Day Contest
As part of the Global Handwashing Day 2023 campaign, the Global Handwashing Partnership is hosting a creative contest that aims to encourage youth (18 years or under) to express their ideas and creativity through a short music video promoting clean hands. The ‘Creating Clean Hands’ Contest invites participants to showcase their talent and passion while…
TAHF Launches Project FHP 100 For Sickle Cell ‘Warriors’
… 24 years on, the Awosika Family launches health project in son’s memory to assist SCWs Saturday August 12 would have been his 43rd birthday. Temitayo Awosika would probably have done what his family did on his behalf: the Awosikas rallied round Sickle Cell Warriors to help cushion the negative effects of harsh economic and…
Dr. David Abia-Okon – From Sceptic To Promoter
The Hungary-trained general surgeon/general medical practitioner had no intention of helping to inflict mumbo-jumbo on any of his patients! He had no choice when a Jehovah’s Witness mom presented with a child who was severely short of blood … Tweny-one years ago a surgeon broiling with rage and contempt visited a herbalist in Lagos. Hungarian-trained…
Incredible PCV Improvement and Health Transformation On Jobelyn
Dr. Titus Okwudili Onyia, MD, BVM Hospital, Okota, Lagos does not bother transfusing women who lost blood at childbirth any more. He gives them mega-doses of Jobelyn, checks their Hb/PCV level after a few days and is gratified by the outcome. – A Testimonial from a Lagos hospital The Blessed Virgin Mary (BVM) Hospital, Okota,…
SCAF: Nigeria’s Good Samaritan Foundation
If during the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown and restrictions you did not receive palliative goodies from an organization known as Sickle Cell Aid Foundation (SCAF), you probably don’t mix with your fellow Warriors! In this interview SCAF President, Elmer Aluge, states why the organization has been playing the Good Samaritan in a country where practically every…
Medical emergency – in a country with scant knowledge of sickle cell!!
In 2005, when Moses Kayongo got married, genotype was not an issue simply because it was considered unimportant as far as you had no background of sickle cell anaemia in your family. In short, sickle cell carrier status was overlooked if you looked hale and hearty – a mistake. Kayongo attended universities in the USA…
Son’s Multiple Strokes Leaves Family Seeking Help
The Oyedele Family of Abeokuta, Nigeria, is on the verge of penury as mounting cost of treatment for 10-year-old Oluwatibamise puts pressure on family income. ‘Bamise’, as he is fondly called, was diagnosed with sickle cell anaemia close to his first birthday, and since then has received medical attention at the Federal Medical Centre, Abeokuta.…
TIF Takes Thalassemia/SCD Education To Next Level
The Thalassaemia International Federation (TIF) has introduced a novel approach to health education and created a unique platform for healthcare specialists and patients with thalassaemia and sickle cell disease. The platform is known as TIFLIX (Thalassaemia International Federation LIbrary eXtended). The brand-new video library powered by TIF gathers a wealth of audiovisual content on everything you need to know about thalassaemia and…
JOBELYN: NEAR-INSTANT RELIEF AFTER 9 YEARS OF MISERY!
As related to Ayoola Olajide, Sickle Cell News Editor, by Nkeirukanma Umeakuekwe, Port Harcourt, Nigeria Nkeiru took her first capsule of Jobelyn early February 2023. She promptly noticed within a few days that she could sit for more time without pain. A few more days, she timed herself and noticed she could sit up five…