… Temitayo Awosika Help Foundation Launches 3 in 1 SCD Support/Awareness Programmes On February 16, 2024, Sickle Cell Warriors from various Lagos-based Sickle Cell Clubs along with their coordinators turned up at Med-In Specialist Hospital, 1/3 Oshogbo Street, Off Celestial Way, Ogudu-Lagos, to partake in TAHF’s first tranche of humanitarian projects of the year. Every…
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…
By Ayoola Olajide, reporting from Accra, Ghana It may sound stigmatising, but direct experience with SCD validates the avoidance of ‘S’ in others! Patricia Odwui, 58, has a simple solution to the problem of reducing or wiping out a disease she lives with and dreads like hell. ‘Don’t marry S if you have S,’ she…
By Ayoola Olajide and ‘Tosin Fawemida It has been observed that slums arise as a failure of governance. Slum dwellers are often the most neglected, marginalized and underserved citizens of any nation. The living conditions are overcrowded and dismal. Superstition, ignorance, unemployment and illiteracy run rife in the sub-society called Makoko, a sprawling township in…
Early knowledge of genotype – along with its implications – helps children know their sickle cell status long before their reproductive age; in turn, they are empowered to make informed choices and hopefully avoid having children with SCD.
A day in the life of a laboratory scientist Without an effective laboratory to compliment services, a medical doctor works as if blindfolded. Cognizant of this, the management of Ayokemi Hospital and Ultra Sound Centre lwo Rd., Ibadan runs a well-equipped laboratory to augment the task of delivering quality healthcare to a teeming population in…
How a Ghanaian spurred the founding of JB4 By Ayoola Olajide and Fatimah Garba Mohammed Sickle cell pain does not go away all at once after a severe acute episode. A peak is reached from which the patient has to descend, as it were, in slow, uncertain steps. In that penumbra between some…
