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Haemoglobinopathy Co-ordinating Centre Network Manager
Monday 19 June 2023 marks World Sickle Cell Awareness Day – a great opportunity to increase awareness of this disease, and the challenges facing patients, their families and carers.
Sickle cell disease is the name for a group of inherited health conditions that affect the haemoglobin in red blood cells. People with sickle cell disorder are born with the condition, it is not contagious. It can only be inherited from both parents each having passed on the gene for sickle cell.