TARGETTED ACTIONS
« Improve daily monitoring of sickle cell patients around the world is our priority»

Your donations will enable the SCDIO achieve the following in 2010:

100 000 neonatal screening

Neonatal screening aims at diagnosing sickle cell anaemia in infancy (before early complications). Thus, preventive treatment and education of their parents could begin very early, before the age of three months. These measures can significantly reduce child mortality.

Vaccination of over 100 000 kids

Infection is a major danger during sickle cell responsible for a very heavy mortality, especially in the first months of life. The severity of these infections justifies the efforts of neonatal screening and prevention that should be developed vis-à-vis the sickle cell disease in poor countries where there lack of vaccines.

Prevention by orthopedic surgeons: donations of over 5,000 prostheses for hip prostheses

960 thousand to 4.8 million of the 120 million sickle cell patients are likely to present an osteo arthritis complication of one or both hips. Three-quarters of these people live in countries or poor areas. Orthopedic surgeons, specialists in sickle cell disease will regularly practice, at low cost, fitting of acquired prostheses in these poor countries.

Therapeutic education and distributions of over 100 000 survival kits containing essential drugs

The therapeutic education of the patients and their families is an important component of medical care, including sickle cell anaemia.

Construction or equipment of sickle cell dedicated centres (Congo, Cameroon, India, Madagascar and Togo)

The construction or equipment management structures such as SCD dedicated centers that allow better monitoring of patients by offering: day hospitalization, blood safety, screening, genetic counselling, a complete hospital for patients with dramatic complications, training of health staff, a hotline for assistance to sickle cell disease patients and public, prevention activities and convivial place.

Construction of “sickle cell disease houses” (Guadeloupe, Gabon...)

Places reserved for the reception, education and psychological care of affected children and families.