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Sickle Cell 101
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Knowledge Matters: You Must Be Your Own Health Literate Advocate
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Who Is Affected by Sickle Cell Disease?
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What Causes Sickle Cell Disease?
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What is sickle cell disease?
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What Health Problems Do Sickle Cell Disease Cause?
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How Is Sickle Cell Disease Treated?
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Living with Sickle CellIs There a Cure for Sickle Cell Disease?
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Six Steps to Living Well With Sickle Cell Disease
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Emergency Guide: When to See the Doctor
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Five Tips to Help Prevent Infections
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Coping With Stress
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Fifteen Reasons Why Exercise Is Good
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Tools for Managing your HealthWhy should we live by this toolkit?
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Where Can I Find and Print the Forms for My Self-Care Toolkit?
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How Often Should I Update the Information in My Self-Care Toolkit? Teach me about the App.
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Who Should Know About My Self-Care Toolkit?
Quizzes
Its genetic. Its not contagious. You cannot catch it from someone else.
Who Is Affected by Sickle Cell Disease?
The patient and the family are all affected by the challenges of this condition. So are the schools, jobs, and communities where they live. When people are sick so many are affected and so many can find ways to help.
It is estimated that SCD affects 90,000 to 100,000 people in the United States, mainly Blacks or African Americans.
The disease occurs among about 1 of every 500 Black or African-American births and among about 1 of every 36,000 Hispanic-American births.
SCD affects millions of people throughout the world and is particularly common among those whose ancestors come from sub-Saharan Africa; regions in the Western Hemisphere (South America, the Caribbean, and Central America); Saudi Arabia; India; and Mediterranean countries such as Turkey, Greece, and Italy.