Sickle Cell

Consequences of Stress on Children's Development

When I was a child, I remember sickle cell anemia being a burden for our family because my uncle was diagnosed with this disease. After the passing of my grandmother, my mother's baby brother came to live with us. He was find most of the time, but there were times when he would be in so much pain that he could not go to school. However, he did graduated. He would have to go to the hospital and receive blood and finally before he die he was in the hospital for a bone marrow transplant. This disease has destroyed many lives and still there is no cure.
In Africa, there is a high percentage of dealth because children who have this disease has not been diagnosed. Mortality in Sickle Cell Anemis has studied children in Muhimbili National Hospital, in Dar-es Salaam, which is the administrative capital of Tanzania with a population of four million. They found that most children who has sickle cell were found in the sub-Sanaran Africa were 75% of  300,000 births were effected and estimated 50 to 80% of children die before adults life. The World Health Organization estimate 70% of death were preventable with simple , low-cost interventions such as early detection. Eventhrough there is no cure life could have been prolong.



  Reference
World Health Organization. (2006) Management of birth defects and hemoglobin disorders: