Sharifu Kiragga Tusuubira

thumb| Sharifu Kiragga Tusuubira (born 4 January 1991) is a sickle cell advocate in Uganda. He is best recognised for his role in starting community sickle cell screening. An initiative that enables people to take the sickle cell screening test and receive results instantly from the confines of their villages. Quotes Worldwide, sickle cell hemoglobin disorders lead to a substantial burden of disease that is not adequately addressed. Accurate data are lacking, but the worldwide estimate for neonates born with sickle cell disease each year is 400,000, including 300,000 with sickle cell anemia. The World Health Organization (WHO) states that 50%-80% of children affected die before five years. If you’re passionate about anything, just start up. Just start, even if you’re one person; along the way you’ll build and be able to grow it. You just have to start … Do not wait for anything. Just start. As a young person, the biggest hurdle was the stigma and discrimination because of sickle cell. We can’t really work from home 100%. Our experiments happen in the lab, so you have to find time to go onto campus. External links Category:Biologists from Uganda Category:Medical scientists Category:Activists from Uganda Category:Health activists Category:1991 births Category:Living people