Sickle cell disease in Africa: burden and research priorities.
Sickle cell disease (SCD) has recently been recognised as a problem of major public-health significance by the World Health Organization. Despite the fact that >70% of sufferers live in Africa, expenditure on the related care and research in the continent is negligible, and most advances in t...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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2007
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