Sickle Cell Disease Awareness Month Toolkit

Contents in this toolkit include pre-sized social media assets designed for Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter designed to highlight World Sickle Cell Awareness Day on June 19th:

• That 250 million people people around the world carry the gene responsible for Sickle Cell disease and other hemoglobin diseases
• That 100,000 people across the United States are affected by Sickle Cell disease
• How blood transfusions are a key treatment often used to relieve symptoms of Sickle Cell disease
• How Sickle Cell patients are often in a chronic state of anemia and require frequent blood transfusions
• That Sickle Cell disease  is the most common genetic disease in the world