Exploring Jamaican contribution to sickle cell disease | Art & Leisure

Sickle Cell, Jamaica and Beyond traces the Jamaican contributions to sickle cell disease over the last 50 years. A semi-autobiographical theme as much of the activity has taken place since the arrival of Graham and Beryl Serjeant in Jamaica ostensibly for one year in August 1966.

At that time, most people and the medical textbooks of the time stated that sickle cell disease usually caused death in childhood, with occasional…