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Communicating sickle cell trait results after newborn screening: Approaches and implications to families

2022-11-01

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<h4>Introduction</h4> Tanzania is amongst the countries in Africa with one of the highest prevalence of individuals with Sickle Cell Trait (SCT). Identifying individuals with SCT is important as they may potentially have children with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD). Interventions such as Newborn Screening (NBS) for SCD can identify individuals carrying the gene very early on to explore strategies for primary prevention...

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Literature Corpus work: 393e1378-0164-5409-a582-a18d40f57c98
DOI: 10.1101/2022.10.30.22281739

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