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Siblings Nabila Nakigozi and Fauzan Ssebaggala were diagnosed with sickle cell disease at birth, and with time running out they

A Kingston hospital nurse with sickle cell disease is speaking out about the stigma attached to the condition. Amanda Joseph, 35,

Brixton Blood Donor Centre is appealing to Black Caribbean and Black African donors after England saw an unprecedented low for

A woman with sickle cell disease wants to deliver lasting change to the next generation by using her experience to

The government has announced £440,000 of funding available to Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities to address the shortage of

In 2008, the United Nations declared 19th June World Sickle Cell Day in order to raise awareness of the inherited

Black blood donors are invited to attend special blood donation sessions for sickle cell in London later this month. On

Minority ethnic people remain ‘vastly underrepresented’ and face longer waiting times in organ donation, new data reveals.  The findings from

NHS Blood and Transplant’s (NHSBT) ‘What’s Your Blood Type’ sessions this month want to recruit new donors with high priority

Men in Wandsworth are being urged by the NHS to donate blood in January. Only men’s blood can be used

The mum of a brave eight-year-old Lewisham girl with a blood disease is urging people with the same rare blood