Empowering Sickle Cell Patients and their Families
ADVOCACY AND SUPPORT GROUPS: Empowering Sickle Cell Patients and their Families Advocacy and support groups create a win-win situation by playing a critical role in educating and empowering sickle cell patients and their families. These groups provide a safe place for people with sickle cell disease (SCD) to connect with each other, exchange ideas, support
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Empowering Sickle Cell Patients and their Families
Advocacy and support groups create a win-win situation by playing a critical role in educating and empowering sickle cell patients and their families. These groups provide a safe place for people with sickle cell disease (SCD) to connect with each other, exchange ideas, support one another, and advocate for better care and treatment for themselves.
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Giving The Poor Is A Great Satisfaction Of heart.
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the charitable sector has provided vital support and services to Canadians through nearly 86,000 registered charities that, in 2018, received about $10 billion in donations. In 2020, however, Charity Intelligence Canada reported that a substantial proportion of charitable donations are wasted on large charities that aren’t transparent about
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Etiology, Epidemiology and History of Sickle Cell anaemia
Sickle cell anaemia is a part of a group of diseases referred to as sickle cell disease or SCD for short. These are diseases that affect the haemoglobin in the body, the molecule within red blood cells that are responsible for the delivery of oxygen.
Read MoreGene-editing Breakthroughs Changing the Lives of Sickle Cell Patients
It’s widely known that sickle cell anaemia is an incurable genetic disease that stems from an inherited flaw within someone’s genes. The flow causes haemoglobin within the body’s red blood cells to be abnormal, distorting and elongating the shape of the red blood cells as a whole. To combat the disease, most people’s only choices
Read MoreWhy You Should Care about Sickle Cell anaemia
Globally, more than 100 million people carry the sickle cell trait. The concentration of trait holders is very high in places like Africa, the Caribbean, South America and within Black communities worldwide. It is a big part of many people’s lives, and there isn’t any simple solution to the disease. Even if you are not
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Nicki Fagbemi using Film to bring Sickle Cell anaemia into the Limelight
On April 7th, 2022, Nicki Fagbemi’s short film “Why Me?” was released by Sky Arts as a part of a series that highlights Black British filmmakers on the rise. Hers, along with 5 other films, circle themes of caring for elders, the culture surrounding social media, racism in 50s England, London housing and Nicki’s film
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Sickle Cell Treatment
Sickle cell anaemia is an incurable and chronic disease, so its treatments address the episodes of extreme pain (vaso-occlusive crisis (VOC)) rather than the disease as a whole. For these episodes, the treatment is specific to the patient’s pain. Often, patients can develop chronic pain that lasts over months, and pain management doctors recommend different treatments to manage the pain.
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How Sickle Cell Disrupts the Body
How Sickle Cell Disrupts the Body Sickle cell targets the proteins within your red blood cells called haemoglobin. Sickle cell causes them to become effective and make rod-like and clumped formations rather than moving around freely and detached as usual. The distortion is also accompanied by a texture change in the cell. The cell becomes
Read MoreOrigins of Sickle Cell anaemia
Where did Sickle Cell anaemia originate, and when and how did it come about? Sickle Cell disease originated in Africa, where it is still prevalent today. Information from the gene leads us to know that SCD originated from 5 mutations, 4 of which came from the continent of Africa. These mutations led to the genes
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