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Common blood disease stirs trouble in marriages

Evidence shows that early diagnosis, particularly at birth, improves disease management.

For many parents, it is best to let sleeping dogs lie when it comes to sickle cell disease.

“I am not going to poke trouble in the eye,” says Nancy Achieng’, on whether she will have her expected baby screened for sickle cell disease (SCD).

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