National Sickle Cell Disease Awareness Month

Event: National Sickle Cell Disease Awareness Month

Date: 2015-09-01

Description: Congress designated September as National Sickle Cell Disease Awareness Month� to help focus attention on the need for research and treatment of sickle cell disease, an inherited condition which affects an estimated 100,000 individuals in the United States and millions globally. Throughout the month public education programs and fund raising activities are conducted to call attention to sickle cell disease on a local and national level.