Cayenne Wellness Center, in partnership with the Global Alliance of Sickle Cell Disease Organizations, invites the global sickle cell community to join the 24-Hour World Sickle Cell Day Marathon. This virtual awareness and action event brings together individuals living with sickle cell disease, caregivers, advocates, healthcare professionals, researchers, and community leaders from around the world.

This year’s theme, Closing the Survival Gap: Equity in Sickle Cell Care, calls us to examine the barriers that still prevent people from receiving timely, compassionate, and effective care. Through global conversations, storytelling, education, advocacy, and community engagement, we will amplify voices and move closer to equity in action.

This event is open to individuals living with sickle cell disease, caregivers, families, healthcare providers, researchers, nonprofit leaders, policymakers, advocates, students, educators, and allies who want to better understand sickle cell disease and support meaningful change.

Closing the survival gap means making sure people living with sickle cell disease can access the care, education, treatment options, mental health support, advocacy, and community resources they need to survive and thrive. Equity in sickle cell care is not only about medicine. It is about dignity, listening, timely care, and systems that respond with compassion.