Barriers to sickle cell disease care: a biopsychosocial analysis mapped to the standards of care guidelines by the sickle pan African research consortium
Leveraging existing, well established vertical programmes in healthcare systems, such as maternal health, immunisation and counselling services, could be a pragmatic pathway to scale up SCD services and minimising barriers to the implementation of the SPARCo SoC.
Authors
- Arthemon Nguweneza
- Obiageli Eunice Nnodu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4801-3156)
- Vivian Paintsil (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8965-0549)
- Ambroise Wonkam (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1420-9051)
- Nchangwi Syntia Munung (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1498-3602)
- Kambe Banda
- Vhuthu Raphunga
- Achuma Mashalaba
Institutions
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- University of Malawi (MW)
- University of Cape Town (ZA)
- Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (GH)
- Johns Hopkins Medicine (US)
- Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (GH)
- University of Abuja (NG)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Public Health
- Published
- 2025-11-27
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdaf147
- Citations
- 4
- Primary Topic
- Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 6.50
Funders
- National Institutes of Health
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
- National Institute of Mental Health