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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.…

NIGERIA Gets First Home/Orphanage For Sickle Cell Warriors

Love her or loathe her, Aisha Edwards-Maduagwu has written her name in the annals of SCD awareness in Nigeria. In 2015, Sickle Cell News dubbed her a ‘General’ in the SCD trenches in Africa’s largest – and the world’s highest-burdened SCD country. In this interview with Prince Emetanajo, she tells more about championing SCD cause…

Sickle Cell News adopts ‘WARRIOR’ as official term for People Living With SCD!

… obnoxious word ‘SICKLER’ begins descent into dustbin of history The word WARRIOR has been gaining traction for some years now. It is even used by officers of the NIH in the US, where in San Diego, Southern California, lives the originator of the word and first Sickle Cell Warrior, Tosin Ola-Weissman. Tosin once went…