Journal
HEMATOLOGY-ONCOLOGY CLINICS OF NORTH AMERICA
Volume 30, Issue 2, Pages 343-+Publisher
W B SAUNDERS CO-ELSEVIER INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.hoc.2015.11.005
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Sickle cell disease; Children; Public health; Bacteremia; Sub-Saharan Africa
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- Wellcome Trust [203077] Funding Source: Medline
- European Research Council (ERC) [203077] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
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In Africa, at least 240,000 children are born each year with sickle cell disease. Historically, in the absence of newborn screening and appropriate treatment, most such children died undiagnosed in early childhood. However, with increasing awareness of the condition and economic and epidemiologic transition, increasing numbers are surviving. Greater investments in basic and applied research in the African context, and increased sensitization or African ministries of health regarding the importance of this condition, could make a substantial difference to the lives and livelihoods of millions of people living with sickle cell disease on the continent and their families.
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