The Office of Non Communicable Diseases and the Gender, Ethnicity and Health Office from the Pan American Health Organization in collaboration with the Ministry of Health of Brazil, with the support of the 5th Brazilian Symposium for Sickle Cell Decease and Other Hemoglobinopathies, organized a Regional Consultation on Sickle Cell Disease on October 3-4, 2009 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

Important Documents

• Agenda of the Regional Consultation on Sickle Cell Disease in Belo Horizonte 2009 (in Word - 123 Kb)

Power Point presentations

• Sistema de Referência Descentralizado - Dr. Paulo Ivo Cortez (en Ppt- 4 Mb)
• Comprehensive care and Sickle Cell Disease - Dr. Roshni Kulkarni (en Ppt- 3 Mb)
• Sickle Cell Disease. Global Update - Dr. Kwaku Ohene-Frempong (en Ppt- 5 Mb)

Preliminary draft of the meeting

• Public Policy Guidelines for the Prevention, Care, and Mitigation of Sickle Cell Disease (en Word - 411 Kb)

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