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ajlm-2973	Satekge, Tumelo; Okesina, Adekunle; Anetor, John; Erasmus, Rajiv	The status of newborn screening in Africa: Situation analysis, future plans and call to action	2025		.htm	text/html	2028	102	46	This threatens the long-term sustainability of NBS programmes, because funding from these external sources is unlikely to be a permanent guarantee.8,9 The Consortium of Newborn Screening in Africa initiative, in partnership with the American Society of Hematology and other organisations, have established sickle cell disease (SCD)-targeted NBS programmes in sub-Saharan African countries.10 The extremely high incidence of SCD in sub-Saharan Africa and its devastating clinical outcomes, as evidenced by high morbidity and mortality in the region, has largely informed the intervention of the Consortium of Newborn Screening in Africa and other non-governmental organisations, and has also attracted the attention of the WHO. Digital applications were introduced in Ghana to conveniently manage the SCD NBS data on the healthcare workers’ mobile phones, which also facilitates follow-ups.	cache/ajlm-2973.htm	txt/ajlm-2973.txt