TABLE 3.

Existing guidelines reviewed by the SoC working group.

African Scd General Guidelines	Non-African Scd General Guidelines
Management of Sickle Cell Disease- The United Republic of Tanzania	Management of children with Sickle Cell Disease in Europe: current situation and future perspectives. R Colombatti and L. Sainati (16)
National Guidelines for the Control and Management of Sickle Cell Disease—Federal Ministry of Health, Nigeria (10)	Sickle Cell Disease: The Clinical Care Guidelines of the Sickle Cell Unit– Watermarked Jamaica. (18)
Recommendations for the management of sickle cell disease in South Africa. Alli N.A. et al. (14)	Consensus statement on the Care of Patients with Sickle Cell Disease in Canada, CanHaem (15)
Draft Sickle Cell Management Guidelines for Ghana	• NHLBI- Evidence based management of Sickle Cell Disease—Expert Panel report 2014 (9)
	• A parent’s guide to managing Sickle Cell Disease. NHS(UK) - Screening Programme- Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia (19)
	• Sickle Cell Disease in childhood. Standards and guidelines for clinical care NHS (UK)- 2010 (24)
	• ENERCA Clinical recommendations for disease management and prevention of complications of sickle cell disease in children. Mariane de Montalembert, et al. (23)
	• Standards for the clinical care of adults with Sickle Cell Disease in UK. Sickle Cell Society, 2008 (20)
	• Outcomes of febrile events in pediatric patients with sickle cell anaemia. Krishnaveni Sirigaddi, Inmaculada Aban, Amelia Jantz et al. (22)
	• Standards for the clinical care of adults with Sickle Cell Disease in UK. Sickle Cell Society, 2018 (12)
	• Sickle cell acute painful episode; Management of an acute painful sickle cell episode in hospital (NICE) 2012 (21)