**1. Introduction**

Sickle cell anemia is a genetic disease that confronts families with iterative, intense and unpredictable crises associated with the physical manifestation on the sick child [1] to his death thought to be imminent and inevitable. It is a taboo in most sub-Saharan African families [2] where it is difficult to meet unique children. Few psychological studies have focused on what happens to children who grow up with a sibling with sickle cell disease which is characterized by severe pain, frequent hospitalization and early death not to mention the high cost of treatment (traditional and medical) for families. However, it is unclear how families live the traditional and medical care of the disease.

This article includes an interview and drawing analysis done with a brother of a sick child in the context of research whose framework and method will be briefly presented. It highlights the way in which a child perceives the healthcare of his sister, both by Western medicine professionals and traditional healers—two types of care specialists with virtually different processes and goals. It is therefore a question of understanding the psychological impact of the concurrent consultation of medical and traditional care of a sick child on his brother. The article illuminates and questions the simultaneous existence of two sickle cell care systems within a

Cameroonian family and tries to understand its effects on a brother of a sick child. It shows the complexity of the experiences of children growing up with a sick sibling and its close interweaving with the family experiences as they care for the child. The objective is to build on this knowledge to open up the design of care devices that better take into account the specificity of the experiences of siblings of children with sickle cell anemia.
