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Sickle cell disease is a serious genetic condition that can cause severe pain, strokes and organ failure, affecting mainly people of African descent. Many adults don’t know if they are carrying the sickle cell trait, which can be passed on to children, so medical providers want to raise awareness about the importance of genetic testing.

Aprile is WFPL's health reporter. Rickert comes to WFPL from the News and Tribune in Southern Indiana, where she covered crime and courts as a senior reporter.

Alison Fitzgerald Kodjak is a health policy correspondent on NPR's Science Desk.

We begin this week with a step back from the Ebola crisis to consider the big picture. Now that one person has died here in the United States and visitors…

Paige Pfleger is a reporter for WOSU, Central Ohio's NPR station. Before joining the staff of WOSU, Paige worked in the newsrooms of NPR, Vox, Michigan Radio, WHYY and The Tennessean. She spent three years in Philadelphia covering health, science, and gender, and her work has appeared nationally in The Washington Post, Marketplace, Atlas Obscura and more.

Jason Beaubien is NPR's Global Health and Development Correspondent on the Science Desk.

Sickle cell disease can damage patients’ bodies in ways that affect their ability to have children, and some treatments may also affect fertility. But many in the resource-strapped sickle cell community cannot access fertility treatments.

Carter is a reporter for Side Effects Public Media and WFYI in Indianapolis. She can be reached at cbarrett@wfyi.org.

Sickle cell disease was long considered a pediatric illness because it took so many children's lives. Health interventions have made it possible for people with sickle cell in the U.S. to live well into adulthood. But the transition out of pediatric care comes with many challenges.

Daniel Zwerdling is a correspondent in NPR's Investigations Unit.