Using the word victim or victims in relation to chronic illness or disability is often considered demeaning and disempowering. Alternative phrases such as who experiences, who has been diagnosed with, or simply with and then the name of the disability or illness, can be used instead.
Sacrifice - 1) a surrender of something of value as a means of gaining something more desirable or of preventing some evil
2) a ritual killing of a person or animal with the intention of propitiating or pleasing a deity