Newborn Screening (NBS)

Goal #1

In Alignment with Ghana’s National Strategy for Sickle Cell Disease

Strategic objective 3: Improve health outcomes of individuals with SCD

Implementation Strategy 1: Ensure universal newborn screening for SCD

Our Goal for the Previous NBS Program

To assist in restoring the National Newborn Screening Program to the 2022 levels of program activity

Our Goal for Future NBS Programs

To assist in identifying, and beginning to implement, a plan for the timely scaling up of newborn screening to a universal level of availability and accessibility

A Ghanaian baby being screened for SCD