NEWBORN SCREENING

 SCID Newborn Screening Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID)  is the most severe form of PID and a paediatric emergency. Patient organisations around the world and IPOPI strive to ensure that babies born with SCIDs can have access to the earliest diagnosis possible allowing for successful and curable treatment. IPIA supports the Irish “Newborn Screening” for Primary Immunodeficiencies and works for the inclusion of SCID in the panel of diseases newborns in Ireland are tested for at birth.  – SCID.

 This is a global initiative, the following countries have already implemented it:

US; Israel, some Canadian provinces, Spanish and Italian regions,… 

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