Knowledge, Attitude And Practice Of Premarital Genetic Counselling On Sickle Cell Anemia Among Undergraduate Student In Kaduna State University

    AbstractSickle cell disease is the commonest genetic disease worldwide and includes disorders affecting the structure, function or production of haemoglobin, that afflicts a great number of people in this part of the world and subjecting them to unspeakable bouts of burden as well as torture. Premarital screening for the identification of carriers of the sickle cell gene, and genetic counseling, especially for at-risk couples with the gene is considered one of the best ways of preventing the sickle cell disease in the newborn. In view of this background, this study analyzes the k…