Editorial: Building capacity for sickle cell disease research and healthcare

Affiliations

• ¹ Division of Human Genetics, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
• ² Centre of Excellence for Sickle Cell Disease Research and Training (CESRTA), University of Abuja, Abuja, Nigeria.
• ³ Department of Haematology and Blood Transfusion, University of Abuja, Abuja, Nigeria.
• ⁴ Department of Pharmaceutical Microbiology, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
• ⁵ Directorate of Child Health-Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana.
• ⁶ Department of Child Health- School of Medicine and Dentistry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
• ⁷ Department of Genetic Medicine, Johns-Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States.
• ⁸ Cochrane Centre, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud Eugenio Espejo, Universidad UTE, Quito, Ecuador.
• ⁹ Cátedra Rectoral de Medicina Basada en Evidencia, Universidad de Carabobo, Valencia, Venezuela.
• ¹⁰ Faculty of Medicine, Francisco de Vitoria University, Madrid, Spain.