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Living with sickle cell: Families' pain as awareness and treatment lag

Participants march in Kisii town to mark World Sickle Cell Disease Day. [File, Standard]

Judith Akinyi dreams of giving birth to a girl. But that dream fades each time she watches her older children battle a pain she knows too well.

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