The Manchester Project — screening for sickle cell, one baby at a time

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PRIOR to 2007, the screening of Jamaican babies for Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) was only done in the Corporate Area; but then came the Sickle Cell Trust (SCT) Manchester Project, which in five years has managed to screen almost 32,000 babies for the disease at five hospitals in that parish.

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