Sickle Cell Disease in Basra: Evidence-Based evaluation and insigh

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BASIM ABDULHASAN

Abstract

Sickle cell disease (SCD) should be framed at the outset as the major hemoglobinopathy burden in Basra. A large epidemiological analysis from southern Iraq showed that SCD constituted 68.58% of registered hemoglobinopathy cases in Basrah, with a reported general prevalence of 238 per 100,000 population and a sickle cell trait frequency reaching 6.5%. The same study described Basrah as hosting the largest cohort of hemoglobinopathy patients in Iraq, underscoring the need to approach SCD as a sustained public health priority rather than a sporadic specialist problem

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ABDULHASAN, BASIM. Sickle Cell Disease in Basra: Evidence-Based evaluation and insigh. Medical Research Archives, [S.l.], v. 14, n. 4, may 2026. ISSN 2375-1924. Available at: <https://esmed.org/MRA/mra/article/view/7479>. Date accessed: 01 may 2026.
Keywords
Sickle cell disease, Basra
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Editorial