Protected: Ese @ 50 – ‘I Dared To Live’
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A wedding is announced!
After a lifelong – and ongoing – struggle with SCD, it was either AA or nothing for Snehal Mahajan
Nigeria Mourns Passing of Sickle Cell Activist
On Friday, 21 August 2020, the lights went out on one of Nigeria’s foremost SCD activists, Shema’u Adam Imam. She was 31 and a 400-Level Chemistry student at Bayero University, Kano. Imam was Chairperson of Kano Sickle Cell Community and a member of the State’s Sickle Trust Fund and was an inspiration to many within…
From Paralysis To PhD – the story of a sickle cell warrior, as told by his mum
Your Child Has Only Three Days To Live, doctors at ABUTH told Mrs. Fagbamigbe A Mum’s Testimonial on the administration of a supplement she’d never heard of, on a very desperate occasion …By Ayoola Olajide, General Editor, Sickle Cell News The doctors gave out no hope about my son ever recovering from his paralysis –…
Protected: trailblazing sickle cell warrior succumbs to GVHD
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Protected: sickle cell warrior rescued from mentally-challenged mum
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Sickle Cell Warrior/Doctor Loses Battle To Coronavirus
On July 30, the dreaded Coronavirus claimed sickle cell Warrior Dr. Ketan Patel. Dr. Patel worked diligently at the Community Health Centre, Anaval Mauva, a village in Gujarat. He was said to have developed COVID-19 symptoms in the course of duty. He developed a fever around July 20. By the 22nd, he was ok, but…
From Poverty To Praise – the story of an Indian Sickle Cell Warrior
Nomesh Kumar Verma, 35 was born in a remote part of the Indian sub continent where genotype was and remains a non-issue. The surroundings where he grew up were so far away from civilization that when he visited Mumbai to participate in a leadership development course for SCD advocates at India’s premier business school, he…
Chara’s Diary Goes For The Jugular of SCD
Psychology Graduate Goes For the Jugular of SCD By Accentuating Genotype Awareness Oluwagbamila Boluwatife, a sickle cell warrior, mental health advocate and Psychology graduate of Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria loves to swim, travel, read and go on an adventures. However, her passions are attuned more towards sickle cell awareness than anything else. ‘I strongly believe…
Meet The Warrior Artist of India
Onward from two years of age, when he was diagnosed with sickle cell anaemia, Girish Dongre has had crises of varying degrees of severity every other month. He is now blood transfusion dependent and has had more than 20 episodes of transfusion. His dad, like any other loving parent, is worried about his child’s health,…