Sickle Cell Centers of Tomorrow Part I

Theoretical Population Dynamics Model of a Genetically Transmitted Disease: Sickle-Cell Anaemia

“…Prevention is thus the necessary ingredient that helps in the control of the S gene, while better care will be given to patients if group settings such as sickle-cell centres are established (Diggs, 1980), where health education and counselling are given not only to sufferers, but also to families with unusual haemoglobin variants. The main activities of such groups should be to dialogue, assemble, catalogue, disseminate information, maintain teaching programs, serve as referral agency, encourage donations for basic and applied research, and help individuals with haemoglobinopathies to obtain maximal benefit from the existing community and health services, so that the frequency and severity of the disease may be fully appreciated.…”