Newborn Screening For Sickle Cell Disease In Nigeria

Nigeria like many african countries has tried to start the newborn screening for congenital hypothyroidism and many failed.

Newborn screening for sickle cell disease in nigeria.

1 department of child health university of benin benin city edo state nigeria. However the establishment of any interventional programme is one thing but utilization of the programme by those for whom it is designed is another matter. Newborn screening for sickle cell disease would therefore benefit from improvements in early access to vaccination programmes as per these recommendations. 22 newborn screening for scd is yet to be established in nigeria which has one of the largest populations of indigenous blacks.

Odunvbun me 1 okolo aa rahimy cm. Since sickle cell disease is more common in nigeria the hypothesis is that incorporating it into a screening programme for congenital hypothyroidism will improve the uptake of the programme by parents and government. Nhs sickle cell and thalassaemia screening programme the nigerian delegates and phe staff have promised to keep in touch sickle cell disease scd affects lots of families in sub saharan africa. Screening programmes for newborn babies have been established in ghana and the republic of benin 21 22 in the republic of benin screening is only carried out on mothers who are carriers of the sickle cell gene.