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Why sickle cell disease need not be a death sentence

By Kiundu Waweru

The news of an 80-year-old man who died in Uganda last year may not have made it to any news pages or television. But to people living with sickle cell anaemia, his life and death is more important than any breaking news as he lived to that ripe age with the sickle cell disease.

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