Nigeria: World Sickle Cell Day - Why Couples Should Consider Genotype Tests Before Marriage

As Nigeria joins the rest of the world on Wednesday to celebrate World Sickle Cell Awareness Day, thousands of the country’s citizens are still under the grasp of the deadly disease.

According to experts, the disease prevails in the country because of the wrong matching of conflicting genotypes in marriages and procreation.

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