From Screening…to Care…to Cure.
Cure Sickle Cell Africa™
A flagship health initiative of THE SHODIPO~ASIMOLOWO FOUNDATION
A coordinated pathway from early diagnosis through treatment, recovery, and life after care.
World-class screening, prevention, specialist treatment, rehabilitation, and wellness.
Dignified housing, meals, transportation, schooling, childcare, and support.
African-led research, transplantation, genomics, donor registries, and clinical partnership.
CURE SICKLE CELL AFRICA™
CURE SICKLE CELL AFRICA™ is being designed to create a new standard for sickle cell care across Africa…combining world-class medicine, family support, research, housing, education, financial assistance, and access to curative treatment within one coordinated system.
The vision is simple:
A CHILD SHOULD NOT HAVE TO FIGHT SICKLE CELL ALONE.
AND A FAMILY SHOULD NOT HAVE TO GO BROKE TRYING TO SAVE THEM.
THE SHODIPO~ASIMOLOWO FOUNDATION intends to build a pathway that begins with early diagnosis and stays with the child and family through treatment, recovery, and life after care.
Coordinated care for the child and the family.
We Treat The Child.
Comprehensive sickle cell care…screening, prevention, specialist treatment, emergency care, stroke prevention, transfusion support, pain management, rehabilitation, and mental wellness.
We House The Family.
Safe, dignified family residences near treatment…with meals, transportation, laundry, schooling, childcare, internet access, and family support.
We Fund The Journey.
THE SHODIPO~ASIMOLOWO FOUNDATION works to remove financial barriers to testing, treatment, donor matching, travel, housing, medications, and medically appropriate curative therapy.
We Advance The Science.
African-led research, transplantation, genomics, donor registries, clinical partnerships, and responsible preparation for emerging gene and cellular therapies.
We Stay Until They Are Home.
Care continues after discharge through follow-up, telemedicine, rehabilitation, medication coordination, school reintegration, and local medical partnerships.
Screen → Diagnose → Protect → Treat → Match → Cure → Follow
Screen
Begin with access to early screening and informed family guidance.
Diagnose
Confirm the diagnosis and connect each person with appropriate specialist care.
Protect
Provide prevention, monitoring, education, and support that reduce avoidable complications.
Treat
Deliver excellent, coordinated care tailored to the patient’s medical needs.
Match
Evaluate eligible patients and pursue medically appropriate donor matching.
Cure
Expand responsible access to medically appropriate curative therapies.
Follow
Stay connected through recovery, rehabilitation, reintegration, and long-term follow-up.
Not every person with sickle cell disease is currently eligible for curative treatment.
But every person deserves excellent care.
Every eligible patient deserves evaluation.
And no family should be excluded simply because of geography or poverty.
A place where families can actually live…not merely sleep.
CURE SICKLE CELL AFRICA™ will go beyond hospital walls.
Families traveling for treatment should have a place where they can actually live…not merely sleep.
- Private accommodations.
- Healthy meals.
- Schooling.
- Play.
- Family counseling.
- Transportation.
- Quiet spaces.
- Community.
- Dignity.
When a child enters our care, the family’s job should be to love the child.
Our job is to help take care of everything else.
Africa must become a global leader in ending the sickle cell burden.
Africa carries an enormous sickle cell burden.
THE SHODIPO~ASIMOLOWO FOUNDATION believes Africa must also become a global leader in ending that burden.
CURE SICKLE CELL AFRICA™ will work alongside hospitals, universities, governments, scientists, donor registries, community organizations, biotechnology partners, and existing sickle cell programs rather than duplicating their work.
We identify the gaps…and help bridge them.
An Africa where every child has the chance to live free from sickle cell disease.
An Africa where children are diagnosed early… receive excellent treatment close to home… families are supported through the entire journey… curative therapy becomes increasingly accessible… African scientists help lead the research…and the circumstances of a child’s birth no longer determine whether that child gets the chance to live free from sickle cell disease.
SCREEN A CHILD.
REGISTER A DONOR. SUPPORT A FAMILY. FUND A CURE. ADVANCE THE SCIENCE.CURE SICKLE CELL AFRICA™
THE SHODIPO~ASIMOLOWO FOUNDATION
With Grace, We Go!!!