‘Sickle Cell Does Not Define My Future’: A Warrior’s Journey from Patient to Advocate

By Lenah Bosibori For almost all her entire life, Arafa Salim Said, a sickle cell warrior and founder of the Sickle Cell Disease Patients Community of Tanzania, has lived with a condition many around her did not understand. “I was diagnosed with sickle cell disease at eight months after birth. While growing
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