FASCA is a nonprofit volunteer health service organization founded in 1972 by the Reverend Lawrence A. Davies who envisioned a chain of statewide sickle cell units providing education and promoting awareness to improve health care services for sickle cell patients. For 36 years, the Fredericksburg Area Sickle Cell Association, Inc. has operated as a financially self-sustaining completely voluntary organization.
In 1994, the Fredericksburg Area Sickle Cell Association, Inc., became incorporated and continues to successfully serve the City of Fredericksburg and the four surrounding counties of Stafford, Spotsylvania, King George and Caroline. Its Board of Directors is composed of two nurses, and area minister and three members of the Fredericksburg Area Sickle Cell Association, Inc.

You may contact us at the folowing address:

FASCA

P. O. Box 3275

Fredericksburg, VA 22402-3275

Phone: (540) 850-9583

Are you or a loved one at risk of carrying the sickle cell trait?

The sickle cell trait is not a disease at all. People born with sickle cell trait are not sick. They do not have the pain or anemia associated with sickle cell disease. Under normal conditions, their red blood cells remain round and flexible. However, they may have a child with sickle cell disease.

DID YOU KNOW?

Not only African-Americans can be a healthy carrier of the gene for the sickle cell disease, but also people from South and Central America, Saudi Arabia, East India, Egypt and Iran, as well as those from the Mediterranean countries of Greece and Italy.