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Attending a One Match Donor Drive

How to Join the Marrow Registry


In Canada

One Match

• Website: www.OneMatch.ca
There are two ways you can join OneMatch:
   1. Request a printed information packet online
   2. Request a printed information packet by phone at 1-888-236-6283
• Age Requirement: Between 17 and 50 years of age
• Health Requirement: in good general health
• Urgently Needed: Right now there is a special need for ethnic males aged 17 to 35

Watch this video about the One Match marrow donor program and what it's like to attend a live donor drive.


Video by: 100 Huntley



In the United States

Be The Match

Website: www.BeTheMatch.com

In the US you can register to join two ways:

1. Join Now Online by ordering a test kit online, you can receive it in the mail. You fill in a short registration form, swab your cheeks then mail the kit back to Be The Match.
2. Join in Person at a live donor drive using a zip code locator that will tell you about any live donor drives taking place in your local area.

Age Requirements: 18 to 60 years to join
Health Requirements: There are health restrictions in place to protect both the donor and patient. CLICK HERE to view the Medical Guidelines on the Be The Match website. Only some, not all, of the conditions listed are grounds for exclusion.

This video shows what the registration process is like, whether attending a live drive or using a home test kit, in the United States.


 



In Italy

IBMRD

Website: Italian Bone Marrow Donor Registry
How You Register:
Age Requirements:
Health Requirements:

How You Can Help Cristina
  1. Join Canada's www.OneMatch.ca
  2. Join the United States' www.BeTheMatch.com
  3. Join Italy's Italian Bone Marrow Donor Registry.
  4. Click here for more registries worldwide.
  5. Ask others to join their local registries by word of mouth, email, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest or blogging.
  6. Like Cristina's Facebook Page for updates.
  7. Follow her on Twitter and tweet #HopeForCristina
  8. Print Cristina's flyers and hang them where you work, shop, etc.

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In Canada please join One Match

One Match

Click Here to learn how to join the registry
or help spread the word to help Cristina.

www.OneMatch.ca

Age requirements:
17 to 50 years to join

Registering is pain free, done with a cotton swab.

In the United States please join Be The Match
Be The Match

Join www.BeTheMatch.com and/or Host a drive in the US to help Cristina and the other 6000 US patients in need.

Join Now Online
by ordering a test kit

Join in Person
at a live donor drive

Age requirements:
18 to 60 years to join

Registering is pain free, done with a cotton swab.

In Italy please join the IBMDR

IBMDR

Italian Bone Marrow
Donor Registry

Age requirements:
18-55 years to join

Registering is pain free, done with a cotton swab.

Press and Publicity

Aiutateci, a Cristina serve un trapianto - Corriere.com

#HOPEFORCRISTINA - SunNews (Video)

•  Social media used to find bone marrow donor - Global News (Video)

Woodbridge family uses social media in search for transplant - CBC News

Family using social media to find bone marrow match (News Video) - CityNews Toronto

Woman with rare disease needs bone morrow donor - Healthzone.ca

• Are you of Italian ancestry or know someone who is? - TheFlirtyBlog.com

Woman needs life-saving match - www.mississauga.com

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