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Healthy Marriage Program
Screens couples before marriage for sickle-cell disease and beta-thalassemia carrier/affected status, alongside hepatitis B/C and HIV.
01 / Project overview
What the record establishes.
- Geographic scope
- Nationwide Saudi couples planning marriage
- Project type
- Population carrier-screening and public-health program
- Research domain
- Hemoglobinopathies and infectious-disease prevention
- Years
- 2004–
- Lifecycle status
- active
- Status basis
- Launched in 2004; the Ministry of Health introduced an electronic service in 2020 and maintains a current service page.
- Status evidence date
- 2026-08-15
- Scale
- National service; current unduplicated participant count is not disclosed on the cited service page.
02 / Organizations and population
Who and what the project connects.
- Lead organizations
- Saudi Ministry of Health
- Partner organizations
- Not stated
- Organism / population
- Couples planning marriage in Saudi Arabia
03 / Data and access
What exists and how it can be reached.
Data types
- hematology
- hemoglobinopathy carrier testing
- serology
Data access
Clinical public-health service; individual data not public
Identifiers
No public accession or identifier is listed for this record.
04 / Evidence and provenance
Why the record is included.
Inclusion basis
Named nationwide inherited-disease screening program included as public-health genetics context.
Editorial note
Mostly hematology/serology rather than sequencing. A reported 2024 sequencing pilot was not included because no authoritative outcome source was located.
Sources
- primary record source Verified 2026-08-15
- additional record source Verified 2026-08-15
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