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Sickle cell disease remains a major public health challenge in Uganda

Sickle cell disease remains a major public health challenge in Uganda

By GhanaSummary NewsroomPan-Africa

Thousands of children, like her daughter have gone years without early diagnosis and proper treatment.

Sickle cell disease remains a major public health challenge in Uganda with nearly 20,000 newborns affected every year.

It has been a gruelling twelve-year journey to a sickle cell clinic in Kayunga for Irene Nalukwago, whose daughter was born healthy at the hospital, east of the capital, Kampala.

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