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Mayor proclaims September 2025 as Sickle Cell Awareness Month; UAB and local advocates outline outreach
Summary
Mayor Randall Woodfin and council proclaimed September 2025 as Sickle Cell Awareness Month; UAB Lifespan Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center and the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America (Central Alabama Chapter) described programs, clinics and public events.
Mayor Randall Woodfin and city officials on Sept. 2 proclaimed September 2025 as Sickle Cell Awareness Month and received presentations from UAB Lifespan Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center and the Central Alabama chapter of the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America.
The proclamation read in part notes that sickle cell disease (SCD) affects more than 100,000 people in the United States, that SCD affects over 5,000 people in Alabama, and that an estimated one in every 11 Black or African American children is born…
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