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Malaria is a tropical and parasitic disease that causes most social and economic impasses around the world, being considered a public health problem. It is caused by the protozoan of the genus Plasmodium, with three species being the most frequent and transmitted by the Anopheles mosquito. Sickle cell anemia is a blood disease caused by a point mutation that allows the formation of a truncated protein, hemoglobin S. Affected individuals are homozygous and as a phenotypic consequence there is the appearance of sickle-shaped red blood cells. The objective of the narrative review is to carry out a bibliographic research that demonstrates the relationship between malaria and sickle cell anemia. This was carried out in the Scientific Electronic Library Online (Scielo) and PubMed databases, whose descriptors consist of "sickle cell anemia", "relationship", "malaria", "maternal effect", "Haldane hypothesis", "sickle cell disease". The relationship between sickle cell anemia and malaria is noted predominantly in malaria-endemic regions, given the studies obtained by Haldane and the hypothesis of maternal effect. Therefore, it is concluded that people carrying the sickle cell anemia gene are reluctant to contract malaria. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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