Number
240884
Version
SUBSTITUTE 1
Reference
Sponsor
ALD. STAMPER, PRATT, PÉREZ, ZAMARRIPA, JACKSON AND DIMITRIJEVIC
Title
Substitute resolution appropriating up to $2,000 from the Community and Economic Development Committee Fund for Sickle Cell Awareness Walk 2024.
Analysis
This resolution appropriates up to $2,000 from the Community and Economic Development Committee Fund for the Sickle Cell Awareness Walk 2024, which the non-profit organization Sickle Cell Warriors of Wisconsin will host in Milwaukee on Saturday, October 12, 2024.
Body
Whereas, Sickle Cell Disease is a genetic condition in which red blood cells that “become rigid and deform into a crescent or sickle shape” die early, lodge themselves in small blood vessels, restrict blood flow, and contribute to complications like “anemia, acute and chronic pain, infections, pneumonia and acute chest syndrome, stroke, and kidney, liver, and heart disease”, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and
Whereas, Sickle Cell Trait, which occurs when an individual inherits one sickle cell gene and one normal gene, produces Sickle Cell Disease symptoms in rare instances but may be transmitted to the individual’s children, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and
Whereas, Sickle Cell Disease is “the most common inherited blood disorder in the United States”, according to the CDC Foundation, while estimates reported by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggest that Sickle Cell Disease affects approximately 100,000 individuals in the United States by reducing their average life expectancy over 20 years relative to the national average; and
Whereas, Estimates further suggest that 90% of individuals with Sickle Cell Disease are non-Hispanic Black or African American, that Sickle Cell Disease occurs in one of 365 African-American births while Sickle Cell Trait occurs in one of 13 African-American births, that approximately 6% of indiv...
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