National Sickle Cell Awareness Month: Increasing Understanding and Health Equity
In the United States (US), the month of September is National Sickle Cell Awareness Month. In 1976, the National Association for Sickle Cell Disease (NASCD) launched a series of public awareness campaigns and started reaching out to local, state, and federal legislators. In 1983, then-President Ronald Reagan signed Proclamation 5102 into law, proclaiming each September […]
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