ABOUT THE SICKLE CELL TRUST
In 1986, the Sickle Cell Trust (Mission statement
For communities: To reduce the frequency of sickle cell disease by community education, counselling and screening.
LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR ACTIVITIES
1. Educational Materials Producing educational materials especially relevant to developing societies with limited resources. These include pamphlets, brochures, posters, teaching slides, videos, DVD’s, booklets, interactive CD Rom tutorials
2. Data Collection and Analysis
DISCUS an Oracle based program for the comprehensive collection and processing of clinical and laboratory data to improve patient management and clinical research. This new generation program has been developed from the Patient Management System (PMS) successfully employed by the MRC Laboratories (
3. Research
Prevention of a genetic disease.
The Manchester Project seeks to determine whether genotype detection and education will reduce the frequency of births with sickle cell disease. Screening is designed to detect HbS, HbC, and beta thalassaemia trait. Counselling is offered to all carriers of abnormal haemoglobins.
This student didn’t mind having a blood test