Sickle Cell Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa

ISBN-13: 9781032729411 / Twarda / 2024 / 176 str.

Bukola Bolarinwa

Opis

This fascinating collection examines the socio-economic factors that impact the well-being of patients with Sickle-Cell Disease (SCD) in sub-Saharan Africa, and the critical importance of patient advocacy in the region.

Spis treści

Introduction  Chapter 1 – Bridging the Gap  Chapter 2 – Social Determinants of Severity in Sickle Cell Disorders  Chapter 3 – Health-related quality of life of children and adolescents with sickle cell disease  Chapter 4 – The Challenge of Data with SCD: A Public Health Crisis  Chapter 5 – Examining the Limited Global Focus on Sickle Cell Disorder and Its Implications for Nigeria’s Legal Framework: A Social Constructionism Perspective  Chapter 6 – Sickle Cell Disorder and Its Psychosocial Burdens in Africa  Chapter 7 – The Critical Importance of Global Collaboration in SCD Advocacy and Management  Chapter 8 – Reducing sickle cell disease stigma in Africa: Successes and Challenges  Chapter 9 – Support Activism - The Role of NGOs And Policy Makers  Chapter 10 – Public Health and Social Implications for Management and Control of Sickle Cell Disease in Developing Countries

O autorze

Baba Inusa, MBBS (ABU 1984), FMCPaed (Nigeria, 1992), FRCPCH (UK, 1997) is Professor of paediatric haematology, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Guy’s and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust.

Kanayo Nwankwo, MD, is the Chief Resident and a life-span sickle cell advocate, currently serving at Brookdale University Hospital in Brooklyn, NY.

Nkechikwu Azinge-Egbiri, is a Lecturer at the School of Law, Lancaster University and Founder of the Sickle Cell Aid Foundation (SCAF), a youth-led NGO she established to raise awareness of Sickle Cell Disorder (SCD) and support those living with it.

Bukola Bolarinwa is a qualified legal practitioner with an LLM in International Economic Law from the University of Warwick and LLB from the University of Leicester.