LIVING TO PROVE THE EXPERTS WRONG
Elvie Ingoli proved the doctors wrong After receiving chemotherapy for Bone Marrow Transplant at the age of 6; and after receiving yet more chemo to treat an ensuing cancer at...
Wanted Dead Or Alive!
'I was wanted dead or alive,' Balogun recalls. 'I escaped to Bomo, a town far from my home base of Samaru, Zaria.' Though in Yoruba, Igbo or English attire, you...
i want to see sickle cell eradicated – Valentine Joseph
Founder, JAYJ Foundation can't ever forget growing up with three brothers having sickle cell ... the reason she hopes to see the disorder ERADICATED one day soon Valentine Joseph, Founder...
71-year-old SCW has never been transfused blood – planning to live over 100
AN INTERVIEW WITH SICKLE CELL WARRIOR EBUN OLUMIDE AKINNINBOSUN EKUNWE, MBBS, MD. MPH Dr. Mrs. Ebun Ekunwe At 71, has never received blood transfusionWorst crisis happened when outside NigeriaLocal foods...
smoking, drinking, burglary, extortion, marijuana use – the life of one sickle cell warrior
'My Life As an ‘Area Boy’' By Titi Aladei Oluwadare Olatunji David, alias Pastore, is a 29-year-old former street hooligan – or, as they are called in Lagos, ‘Area Boy’....
Last Moments of 94-year-old sickle cell warrior
The Great Warrior with her daughter, Mosun Adeniji THE GREAT ADUKE AND ME, BY MOSUN ADENIJI She re-dedicated her life to Jesus Christ two weeks before she died. Her daughter,...
I underwent a Genetic Counselling Course and my views about SCD prevention changed forever!
Mrs. F. F Salami receiving GC Certificate from Professor Olu Akinyanju, Chairman, Sickle Cell Foundation (Nigeria) Anambra Sickle Cell Law Loses Staunch Supporter A Registered Nurse/Midwife, Registered Nurse Educator/Administrator and...
MY SON HAD NO COMPLICATIONS AFTER HALF-MATCH BONE MARROW TRANSPLANT
Isaiah Muleme's Seamless Bone Marrow Transplant Sarah Namugwanya of Kampala, Uganda, took her son, Isaiah Muleme for consultation in India for his Sickle Cell Anaemia treatment. Isaiah successfully underwent a...
I YELLED AT MY GRANDSON AND HE LAPSED INTO A COMA
Instantly, Chibuike reeled backwards and had another stroke. As there was no money, nearness to hospital proved useless on that day. It was one thing to live close to a health care setting, and yet another to have the means to access care