2023-06-19 10:00:03
On the occasion of World Sickle Cell Day, we take stock of the most common genetic disease, among those detected at birth. It thus concerns approximately 300,000 births in the world each year. This hereditary hemoglobin disease leads to a deformation of the red blood cells which have difficulty circulating in the blood and sometimes become blocked in the blood vessels, then causing particularly painful crises. Of the 120 million people affected by sickle cell disease, 66% live in Africa.
How is sickle cell disease transmitted? What care for patients with sickle cell disease? What does the daily life of patients look like?
Dr. Assa Niakaté-Tallreferring physician for vaccination and sickle cell disease within the Paris Prevention and Screening Office. Sickle cell specialist in general paediatrics at Trousseau Hospitalin Paris. Leyla Aissa Hamidou,expert patient sickle cell disease in Niger Prof. Alexis Elira DokekiasFull Professor of Hematology, Head of the Hematology Department of the Brazzaville University Hospital in CongoManaging Director of National Reference Center for Sickle Cell Disease and Rare Diseases Antoinette Sassou Nguesso » and President of the African Society of Hematology
Musical programming:
► Arlo Parks - Impurities
► Maria Siga – no mom
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