Table 5:

Respondents' attitude to sickle cell disease

Questions on Attitude	Frequency (n)	Percentage (%)
Knowledge of own haemoglobin genotype status
Yes	350	94.6
No	20	5.4
Willingness to marry another carrier partner despite knowing risk of SCD Births
Yes	32	8.6
No	299	80.8
I don’t know	39	10.5
Response to your unborn baby following prenatal diagnosis of SCD
Abortion	141	38.1
Allow pregnancy	183	49.5
Undecided	46	12.4
Legislation against marriage union between two SCD trait carriers
Agree	202	54.6
Disagree	102	27.6
Undecided	66	17.8
Abortion of an unborn SCD Baby should be encouraged by law
Agree	124	33.5
Disagree	174	47.0
Undecided	72	19.5

Total (n) = 370 (100%)