This document discusses hereditary diseases like sickle cell anemia. It notes that sickle cell anemia causes red blood cells to become sickle-shaped and can lead to infections in bones, the gallbladder, lungs, and urinary tract. The document also mentions that premarital medical tests can reveal if a person has or carries sickle cell anemia or thalassemia, or has infections like hepatitis B, hepatitis C, or HIV.

1. Project Study
Alrabab Alhay
• The definition of hereditary Diseases
• Sickle cell and its effect
• The government role

2. Hereditary: conferred by based on
inheritance (Oxford , 2014)
(MedicineNet, 2012)

3. • a serious disorder in which the body makes sickle-shaped red
blood cell (Explore Sickle Cell Anemia, 2012)
• Bone infection (osteomyelitis)
• Gallbladder infection (cholecystitis)
• Lung infection (pneumonia)
• Urinary tract infection

4. • premarital medical test
What will the result reveal?
• If the person is affected with or is a carrier
of sickle cell anemia or thalassemia
• If the person is infected with hepatitis B or
C virus
• If the person is infected with HIV
(Human Immunodeficiency Virus)