Sickle Cell and All the Diseases We Choose to Ignore

America Dissected

Incision Media LLC

Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.7 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Sickle Cell Disease is a debilitating genetic disease that almost exclusively affects Black folks. While genetic breakthroughs have made a cure possible, the high price tag may keep them away from people who need them. Abdul reflects on the way that society shapes the scientific questions we ask — and whose diseases we take seriously. Then he interviews Dr. Titilope Fasipe, a pediatric hematologist who treats sickle cell disease — and has lived with the disease her whole life.

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