BBCNEWS Africa July 5, 2024
approximately 1,000 people are born every day in africa with sickle cell. i have sickle cell disease. up to 90% of us die before the age of five. 0ur government do little to help us. even in our own communities, people with sickle cell are often treated like outcasts because of misconception and stigma surrounding the disease. i'm putting my life on the line to fight this deadly disease. and to dispel the myths that surround it. sickle cell is not witchcraft. it's not — it's not ancestral curses. it's something that we can solve. gentle guitar music plays. speaks swahili. 0h, damn!...