This is a critical public health problem that has a dramatic impact on the neediest inhabitants in a region with nearly a 20 percent disease rate and where one out of five children with major sickle-cell anemia is not likely to survive past the age of five.
Hili ni tatizo kubwa sana katika afya ya jamii lililo na madhara makubwa kwa watu wanaohitaji msaaada wa haraka katika eneo lililo na kiwango cha ongezeko la ugonjwa huu kwa asilimia 20 na ambapo kwa kila mtoto mmoja kati ya watoto watano walio na anemia huwa katika hatari ya kupoteza maisha baada ya kufikisha miaka mitano.