Critical Health Disparities Affect People with Sickle Cell Disease
An article about sickle cell disease explains that too often people living with this serious illness receive inadequate pain management. With the disease primarily affecting Black Americans, there is a critical health disparity in play. Per the author, a professor of nursing at the University of Florida, "A future with health equity for sickle cell disease is possible, but only when pain is controlled and treatments have fewer complications and can be made affordable everywhere."