Building on earlier conversations, research, and collective reflections on Sickle Cell Disease (SCD), Sama Resource Group for Women and Health convened a follow-up roundtable meeting in New Delhi on 4 July 2025.The roundtable sought to deepen engagement with psychosocial health and disability justice as core concerns in responses to SCD. Here are some photographs of the roundtable. Continue reading
On 4 July 2025, Sama Resource Group for Women and Health hosted a roundtable meeting in New Delhi as follow-up to its work on SCD. The aim of this roundtable was to emphasise the importance of centring psychosocial health and disability justice as core concerns in responses to SCD. Continue reading
On July 4th 2025, Sama Resource Group for Women and Health is organising a National Roundtable on ‘Amplifying Psychosocial Health and Disability Justice in the Realm of Sickle Cell Disease (SCD)’ in Delhi. This roundtable is part of the on-going work… Continue reading
As part of a series of consultations and webinars on Sickle Cell Disease (SCD), Sama is organising its third webinar titled, “Racial and Structural Disparities in Health: Rights, Treatment, and Care for People with Sickle Cell Disease” on Tuesday, the 7th of January, 2025, between 05:00 PM and 07:00 PM (IST). Register Now! Continue reading
On August 30, 2024, Sama conducted a webinar titled “Screen to Treat or Stigmatise?: Ethical Dilemmas, Reproductive Governance, and Genetic Blood ‘Disorders'” as part of a series of consultations on “Interrogating SCD as a public health, reproductive justice, and disability justice issue.” Watch the recording of the webinar. Continue reading
Sama organised a webinar on August 5, 2024, titled “Conceptual Constitution of Disability: A Public Health and Feminist Understanding of Sickle Cell ‘Disease’ & Multiple Sclerosis” as part of its ongoing work on sickle cell ‘disease’ (SCD) and facilitating critical discussions on SCD, gender, and other intersections. Watch the recording of the webinar. Continue reading
