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World Sickle Cell Day
June 20, 2024
World Sickle Cell Day
June 19th is World Sickle Cell Day – a day of raising awareness!
World Sickle Cell Day is a United Nation’s recognized day to raise awareness of sickle cell at a national and international level. On 22nd December 2008, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution that recognizes sickle cell disease as a public health problem and “one of the world’s foremost genetic diseases.” The resolution calls for members to raise awareness of sickle cell on June 19th of each year at national and international level.
Sickle cell anemia, or sickle cell disease (SCD), is the most common form of inherited blood disorder. SCD affects African Americans at much higher rates than people of other ethnicities.