availability of treatment for sickle cell anemia in developed and underdeveloped countries???

are there any differences in availibility of treatment for sickle cell anameia in developed and underdeveloped countries??

i would have thought that there would be because most treatment has been discovered and developed in more developed countries and because there richer countries have more money, they have greater access to the (limited) resources. and it may have something to do with creating a division between the rich and poor.

but i can’t find anything on the internet to give any more information.. can anyone perhaps direct me to suitable websites they can find ??

thanks

The quality of treatment would vary between developing and developed countries … to put it simply a person in "sickle cell crisis" tends to be in immense pain and depending on how severe the crisis is they may need ICU treatment or at least hospitalisation…and there is a mayor difference between standards of care in developed countries compared to underdeveloped countries. I would even go so far as to say there is a diffence in care between a rural hospital and a metropolitin hospital…there is far more resources in large teaching hospital compared to the small country town clinic. You also have to keep in mind that only a small amount of the population has sickle cell anameia so a rural hospital is not likely to see anyone with that disease for years so when the unlucky person who has sickle cell anameia happens to walk into that emergency department in a sickle cell crisis the likelyhood of the staff knowing what to do is small. whereas large metropolitin hospitals would see at least a few sickle cell crisis a year so have more experience in the care of that person.

Also developed countries have the resources to test babies at birth for sickle cell anameia and the sooner it is discovered the better the management and outcome is…

In developed countries children with sickle cell anemia are seen on a regular basis in outpatient clinics attached to hospitals so that they are monitored and treated before they ended up in total crisis, you wouldn’t get these clinics in developing countries, the money isn’t there for them.

In developing countries the discovery the child has sickle cell anemia would only occur once the child presented in a sickle cell crisis.