Urban Perspective: Informing Blacks About Sickle Cell Disease From: Los Angeles Sentinel | Date: October 31, 1996| Author: Larry Aubry | . Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Los Angeles Sentinel

10-31-1996

URBAN PERSPECTIVE: Informing Blacks About Sickle Cell Disease.

Sickle cell disease is, of course, most prevalent among blacks in the United States. About one in every five hundred inherits the disease. Despite this high incidence of occurrence, however, African Americans are not well-informed of the disease, its implications, or the need for community education and participation in support of its victims.

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