African Sickle Cell News & World Report
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‘I want to go on a world tour’– Ugandan Matilda Nanyondo Born 21 years ago, Matilda Nanyondo’s looks mask her SCD and the rough times she had undergone with it. The journey began when she was just seven months old – swollen hands and joints, uncontrollable crying and a diagnosis […]
The benefits of SCD’s #1 medication seem to outweigh the side effects. 14-year-old with avascular necrosis (AVN) recovers speedily Children forget Sickle Cell pain Hospitalization down to few or NONE in years 6TH African SCD Symposium endorses Hydroxyurea for Africa. DOWNLOAD
• ‘Except there is a cure for SCD, no more pregnancies for me!’ – says Oluwayemisi Oladejo, after losing 10 babies to miscarriages and stillbirths. • I was on Hydroxyurea before and during pregnancy and even after delivering and breastfeeding my babies! – Shifneez Shakir •Samira Sanusi: a whole new […]
Onikoyi-Laguda: 92 Years With Sickle Cell Alhaja Asiata Aduke Onikoyi-Laguda is about the oldest person with sickle cell anaemia in the world. She was born in Lagos, Western Nigeria 1st November 1925, the second of four children. Alhaja Onikoyi-Laguda is a lonely woman. Virtually all her playmates and peers are gone. […]
CHEATING COMPLICATIONS …. BY HIS GRACE Monininuolaoluwa Philips-Adeleye turned 50 last August 2013– 50 years since she has been cheating complications from SCD. Thrice doctors predicted she would give birth by Caesarian Section, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, General Overseer, The Redeemed Christian Church of God, prayed for her and predicted she […]
LABORATORY SCIENTIST ENCOURAGES TWO WITH SS TO MARRY! Joseph Adeyele Titilope (popularly known as JAT), 62, is a well-known laboratory scientist in Lagos State, Nigeria. His influence straddles Ijebu Ode, Ogun State, where, in 1983, he established the first privately owned medical lab. In a country where half-baked laboratories exacerbate […]
Many ridicule the notion of reincarnation. In this interview, Dr. Omoniyi Fagbemi,Medical Director, Longing Medical Centre, Ijaye, Lagos, says whether we realize it or not, whether we believe it or not, we have all been here times before. Is reincarnation a fact, a figment of fertile human imagination, or both? In […]
‘I Am Something Of A Workaholic,’ – Tobi Lala, biomedical scientist, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria At a time when genetic newborn screening was still in the realm of scientific possibilities, it is rare indeed for anyone with SCD to be so diagnosed shortly after birth, but that was exactly […]
87 YEARS WITH SICKLE CELL – The Story of Alhaja Asiata Aduke Onikoyi-Laguda Unlike at the time of her 80th birthday, Alhaja Asiata Aduke Onikoyi-Laguda would not be marking her 86th November 1st with fanfare. ‘Islam forbids extravagance,’ she explains, ‘I would rather have a very low-key celebration – if […]
Moshood Kashimawo Olawale (MKO) Abiola: The Sickle Cell Connection ‘BEST PRESIDENT NIGERIA NEVER HAD’ – MOSHOOD KASHIMAWO OLAWALE ABIOLA’S SICKLE CELL CONNECTION MKO Abiola was the first child of Alhaji Salawu Adelekan Akanni Abiola to survive childhood. Before him, 22 children had been born and none lived to the age […]