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National Sickle Cell Awareness Month

Name: National Sickle Cell Awareness Month
Start: 2018-09-01
End: 2018-09-30

First officially recognized by the federal government in 1983, National Sickle Cell Awareness Month calls attention to sickle cell disease (SCD), a genetic disease that researchers estimate affects between 90,000 and 100,000 Americans.

When

September 1 ‐ September 30, 2018

Link

https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/educational/sickle-cell-awareness

National Sickle Cell Awareness Month

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