Among the non-communicable diseases affecting the adolescents in our study, sickle cell disease (SCD) featured prominently. Even though the literature shows that mortality from SCD usually occurs in adulthood, adolescents are also vulnerable to death from this disease [24,25]. Loureiro and colleague in their evaluation of deaths from SCD found in one locality in Brazil that, mortality was concentrated among children less than 4 years [24]. This was followed by a decline and subsequently a rise beginning at age 15 years. From an autopsy study of SCD patients, Manci and colleagues found infections to be the most common cause of deaths in all age groups [25]. The susceptibility of adolescents to infections noted in this study thus highlights the need to also manage adolescents with SCD with vigilance.