Hydroxyurea for Sickle Cell Disease: Who Gets It, How to Dose It, and What to Monitor

A seven-year-old girl arrives at the clinic with her third painful crisis this year. Her mother asks what many Nigerian clinicians hear every week: can anything stop this from happening? For many children, the answer is hydroxyurea for sickle cell disease, a drug with decades of evidence behind it. In May 2026, the World Health […]