The mission of this site is to provide sickle cell patient and their families and health care providers with professional education, news, research updates and access to sickle cell resources worldwide.

Our goals are:

• to empower patients and families take control of their health and their lives, to break the sickle cycle.
• to enable health care providers and organizations to provide world class, compassionate care, education and counseling to patients with sickle cell disease.
• to increase awareness and knowledge about sickle cell disease across the globe.
• to foster research to expand treatment options for sickle cell disease, and ultimately to provide a cure.

This site maintains the privacy of all individuals and no information is gathered.

This site is not supported by and does not accept advertising requests.

Content and responses are reviewed by the Center Advisory Board.

Information provided on this site is designed to support, not replace, the relationship that exists between a patient/site visitor and his/her physician.