of cases, but with little testing available, a lack of awareness of the condition and a belief in some places that haemophilia results from witchcraft, the figure could be higher. Only 2% of those who are diagnosed receive treatment, making it one of the most ignored conditions on the continent.
There is no government-funded treatment or a patients’ register for haemophilia in Nigeria. Patients wanting the expensive clotting factor concentrates they need for regular injections have to buy them privately or visit one of 15 blood transfusion centres in hospitals, run by the
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