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Vanguardngr
Key stakeholders in Nigeria’s health and research sectors have raised fresh alarm over the deepening sickle cell crisis, calling for urgent, coordinated policy action to translate years of research into lifesaving interventions.
The call came at the Patient-Centred Sickle Cell Disease Management in Sub-Saharan Africa (PACTS) International Consortium Meeting hosted by Yakubu Gowon University (formerly University of Abuja), where experts described the situation as critical for millions living with the condition.
Vice-Chancellor of the university, Prof. Hakeem Babatunde Fawehinmi, warned that Nigeria remains one of the countries with the highest global burden of sickle cell disease, with about 150,000 children born annually with the condition.
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