The event at West Oakland's DeFremery Park brought together supporters of sickle cell disease awareness, emphasizing the urgent need for advocacy due to recent federal health program cuts. Nivia Charles, an advocate and sickle cell warrior, underscored the community's long-standing struggle for health equity, stating that awareness is crucial now more than ever. The disease affects around 100,000 Americans, predominantly Black or Hispanic, and its management has been severely impacted by recent reductions in federal support and programs that have historically aided the sickle cell community.
According to advocate Nivia Charles, awareness of the most common inherited blood disorder in the United States is now more important than ever due to recent federal health cuts.
The extreme cutbacks this administration has made to funding and programming have been egregious. The impacts of these changes could effectively dismantle decades of work and progress made in health and research for sickle cell.
Collection
[
|
...
]