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Caring for Africa’s sickle cell children: will we rise to the challenge?
BACKGROUND: Most of the world’s sickle cell disease (SCD) burden is in Africa, where it is a major contributor to child morbidity and mortality. Despite the low cost of many preventive SCD interventions, insufficient resources have been allocated, and progress in alleviating the SCD burden has lagge...
Autores principales: | Oron, Assaf P., Chao, Dennis L., Ezeanolue, Echezona E., Ezenwa, Loveth N., Piel, Frédéric B., Ojogun, Osifo Telison, Uyoga, Sophie, Williams, Thomas N., Nnodu, Obiageli E. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7187492/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32340612 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-020-01557-2 |
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