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Farah Yousry, Kaiser Health News, Side Effects Public Media

Farah Yousry covers health equity for Side Effects Public Media, a Midwest health reporting collaboration based at WFYI, in partnership with the Indianapolis Recorder. She focuses on health care disparities in minority communities across the Midwest.

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For patients with sickle cell disease, fertility care is about reproductive justice

By: Farah Yousry, Kaiser Health News, Side Effects Public Media - December 13, 2022

This story originally appeared in Kaiser Health News. Teonna Woolford has always wanted six kids. Why six? “I don’t know where that number came from. I just felt like four wasn’t enough,” said Woolford, a Baltimore resident. “Six is a good number.” Woolford, 31, was born with sickle cell disease. The genetic disorder causes blood […]

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