25/03/2026
🌍 Ahead of World Hemophilia Day, we’ve been thinking about the theme: ‘Diagnosis – First step to care’.
🇺🇬 It put us in mind of a Ugandan friend, Morris Okello. Despite a history of traumatic injuries throughout childhood, made worse by an undiagnosed condition, he was a teenager by the time he got a diagnosis of haemophilia B.
💬 Last autumn, he told Dr Kate Khair what diagnosis meant for him:
“From that point onward, now I began getting the knowledge, I began getting myself really involved to try and find ways that I can live a better life without having too many bleeds.”
📖 Find out more about Morris’s story here: https://loom.ly/5AMZ2xE