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How this mom is raising the profile of sickle cell disease for Black women everywhere

For patients with sickle cell disease, fertility care is about reproductive justice

Getting fertility care is complex. It can be harder if you have sickle cell disease

SC RED Puts Focus on Patients’ Reproductive and Sexual Health

We Need to Talk About Sickle Cell Disease and Reproductive Health

Dreams of Motherhood, Deferred

Social Impact Heroes: Why & How Teonna Woolford of Sickle Cell Reproductive Health Education Directive Is Helping To Change Our World

Rare Leader: Teonna Woolford, Co-Founder and CEO, Sickle Cell Reproductive Health Education Directive

Our CEO’s quote about "sickle cell awareness month being every month" has taken off. As a result, SC RED made it to BIO.

Teonna Woolford, Co-founder & CEO, Sickle Cell Reproductive Education Directive, A DotCom Magazine Interview

Video from ASH 2021: Sickle-cell patients, activists tell their stories

Sickle cell can be passed on to kids – but many don’t know if they carry the gene

New gene therapies confront many sickle cell patients with an impossible choice: a cure or fertility

Key questions (and answers) about the historic approval of a CRISPR-based medicine

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Our CEO’s quote about "sickle cell awareness month being every month" has taken off. As a result, SC RED made it to BIO.

September is Sickle Cell Awareness Month—a time to reflect on how many people are affected by Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) and how much more needs to be done to fund research and put an end to it once and for all.

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Have you noticed a shift in the atmosphere, a change in the narrative, or an overall new energy and sense of urgency to effect change and address inequities in the sickle cell community? Individuals with sickle cell disease are viable and whole. To honor that wholeness, reproductive health has to be prioritized, normalized, and standardized. Be sure to follow us on social media and check this page for updates.

Thanks to Pfizer, two of our very own founders had a unique opportunity to share the stage during this panel discussion aimed to educate medical students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities on the health inequities faced by the sickle cell community and how we can work to ensure more students of color specialize in SCD

Two of our founders participated in an incredible panel discussion moderated by the one and only Symone Sanders-Townsend during the National Association of Black Journalist 2023 Convention. It was an incredible opportunity to share more about the inequities and disparities around reproductive and maternal health

FDA sets decision dates for Vertex, CRISPR gene editing drug

bluebird bio Announces FDA Priority Review of the Biologics License Application for lovotibeglogene autotemcel (lovo-cel) for Patients with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) 12 years and Older with a History of Vaso-Occlusive Events

Editas Medicine Announces Positive Initial EDIT-301 Safety and Efficacy Data from the First Four Patients Treated in the RUBY Trial and the First Patient Treated in the EdiTHAL Trial

Congratulations to Co-founders Dr. Lydia Pecker (Lead author) and Teonna Woolford (co-author) on this groundbreaking publication that highlights the need for fertility services to be incorporated into SCD care)

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Axis Advocacy Podcast

Our CEO sits down with Adrienne Shapiro to discuss SC RED’s mission, year one plans, and excitement for this new era.