{"id":1142,"date":"2022-06-19T14:39:40","date_gmt":"2022-06-19T14:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/06\/19\/exploring-the-stigma-of-sickle-cell-anaemia\/"},"modified":"2022-06-19T14:39:40","modified_gmt":"2022-06-19T14:39:40","slug":"exploring-the-stigma-of-sickle-cell-anaemia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=1142","title":{"rendered":"Exploring the stigma of sickle cell anaemia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Why do some people grow up not knowing they have sickle cell?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Sickle cell anaemia is a genetic blood disorder that affects millions of people worldwide. Despite this, stigma surrounding the disease persists especially in West African countries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Where does the stigma come from and what can be done to improve the lives of people living with the disease?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">BBC Africa reporter Jameisha Prescod spoke to African people living with sickle cell to dispel misconceptions about the condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Filmed, produced and directed by Jameisha Prescod<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Executive producer Connor Boals<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-61848985?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Why do some people grow up not knowing they have sickle cell? Sickle cell anaemia is a genetic blood disorder that affects millions of people worldwide. Despite this, stigma &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}