Sickle cell disease can be life-threatening or chronically debilitating for both children and
adults. Worldwide, more than 300 000 children are born with sickle cell disease every year …

The World Health Organization defines Quality of Life as an individual's perception of their
position in life in the context of the culture and values systems in which they live and in …

Hemoglobinopathies, including sickle cell disease (SCD) and thalassemia syndromes,
represent the commonest monogenic diseases in the world. Although their pathogenicity is …

Differences in health outcomes and treatment responses within and between global
populations have been well documented. There is growing recognition of the need to move …

Newborn mortality and adverse birth outcomes (ABOs) in Sao Tome & Príncipe (STP) are
overwhelmingly high, and access to quality-antenatal care (ANC) is one of the strategies to …

Together with the molecular knowledge of genes and proteins, biological images promise to
significantly enhance the scientific understanding of complex cellular systems and to …

Abstract The Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) Ontology (SCDO, https://scdontology. h3abionet.
org/) provides a comprehensive knowledge base of SCD management, systems and …

Developing a complex collaborative program across multiple African countries,
characterized by a diversity of government models, laws, cultures and norms, resources and …

Skills development, the building of human capacity, is key to any sustainable capacity
building effort, however, such undertakings require adaptable and tailored strategies. The …

History suggests that times of crisis in Africa are often exploited for unethical collection and
use of samples and data, and African research participants can become targets of ethics …