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The 5th Health Research Days of the University Hospital of Guadeloupe, which took place on 2 and 3 December 2022, brought together all the stakeholders concerned (hospital doctors and nurses, primary care stakeholders, researchers from the Public Scientific and Technological Establishment (EPST), industrialists and financiers). The main aim of these days was to bring together […]

The 15th annual Sickle Cell in Focus (SCiF) conference is returning virtually from October 11th- October 15th, 2022. In addition to the University of West Indies, this year’s conference will also be in collaboration with the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America (SCDAA). SCDAA is a nonprofit organization with the sole purpose of supporting research, […]

The 4th Global Congress on Sickle Cell Disease held in Paris on June 16-18 2022 with more than 500 participants, patients and scientists from all over the world, kept all its promises, featuring high-level scientific and state-of-the-art presentations, combined with patient testimonies and workshops. The Caribbean was well represented with 2 communications: a brilliant plenary […]

The 1st National Sickle Cell Disease Review was held on 29th June 2022, in Kingston & St Andrew according to the following objectives: To review the performance of the Sickle Cell (SCD) programme over the last four calendar years (2018-2022) To assess the SCD programme performance for 2021 To highlight the experiences of SCD patients […]

World Sickle Cell Day, June 19th, 2022, is an opprtunity to increase public knowledge about this hereditary disease. Like each year, the medical community, researchers, patient associations and all stakeholders involved in sickle cell disease are organising events around this date in order to raise public awareness. You will find below an overview of the events […]

Dear Members & Partners of CAREST Thank you for attending this General Assembly on 27 January 2022, which is being held in a hybrid mode to respect the current COVID restrictions. These protective measures continue to be necessary to reduce the spread of the SARS-COV-2 coronavirus and the consequences as serious as those experienced during […]

Tribute to Dr. Darville Raye, pillar of Sickle Cell Care for the children of Grenada who died so young. His colleagues mourn him as well as CAREST, which he joined as the representative of Grenada at 5th Caribbean Conference on Sickle Cell Disease and Thalassemia organized by “CAREST” and “GR-Ex” in October 2018 in French […]