A Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia pediatrician’s research projects span across continents to Botswana, a sub-Saharan African country with a busy clinic for 2,000 HIV-infected children and adolescents who stole her heart.
In a recent interview with the National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality (NICHQ), Kwaku Ohene-Frempong, MD, Doctor Emeritus of CHOP's Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center, discussed his work with sickle cell disease. Dr. Ohene-Frempong, who has worked for more than thirty years to improve sickle cell disease treatments in the U.S. and abroad, noted that in Africa sickle cell disease is
