World Sickle Cell Day 2024 is on Wednesday, June 19, 2024: With advancements is genetic engineering will it some day be possible to cure the colored people of

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You'll see a genetic cure for sickle-cell anemia earlier. Sickle-cell anemia is a bad thing in most parts of the world.

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Christians: Why did many Africans develop sickle cell?

1. Natural selection is an excellent design strategy to help the creation survive in a changing and broken world. It has been stretched beyond observable and known biological limits to support Macro (large) change evolution theories. So there is nothing in real observable testable hard Science that goes against God and his truth.

2. When people use an example of the disease sickle cell (anemia) as an "improvement" it is really under informed. Disease & parasites are a result of the original perfect creation being broken. Things as we have them now are Not working as originally created, so we have problems like these. Mutations like sickle cell deform and render the blood cells less capable of doing their function and also less able to support malaria parasites too. These traits do get passed to the next generation and it has been shown this is most common in the those of African origin. (eg. About 1 in 12 African Americans has sickle cell trait.) This "good" does not out weigh the bad of this painful and debilitating disease. Many die of organ failure between age 20 and 40 if not undergoing regular treatments for it.

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3. Since malaria is a world-wide issue not just Africa, I think we would see it more in other groups too not just Africa. God didn't choose to give it to one group to "help" and not another. It's a product of our broken world. All this will be fixed one day and we can enjoy the way things were meant to be if we trust in God and his solution for sin and brokenness.

How can we get more publicity for Sickle Cell Disease so more research can be done and get a documentary done.?

Research is being done, but you're right, this life threatening disease does not get nearly as much attention as other diseases. The only known cure is the risky bone marrow transplant, which can only be done in a tiny percentage of cases of sickle cell anemia. Unfortunately, sickle cell anemia is still one of those things that people don't understand well and often stereotype. I see this regularly working in pediatric hematology/oncology, and it's really frustrating.

I wish I had advice for you, but I can only offer support.