Sickle Cell
Three medicines. Three simple rules. A childhood saved.
About 20,000 children are born with sickle cell disease in Uganda each year. Many die before their fifth birthday — from infections and anaemia that are entirely preventable.
Three interventions, all decades old, change this picture. Newborn screening identifies affected children within days of birth. Penicillin prevents the infections that kill the youngest. Hydroxyurea reduces the painful crises that mark every life with this condition.
Kabukye Trust now supports 150 children and young people living with sickle cell disease. We connect each one to diagnosis and ongoing care.
What is missing is not science. It is navigation: the human link between a rural family and the national health system.
