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Is there a bone marrow registry in the British Virgin Islands?

For people who live in the British Virgin Islands. Live somewhere else? Find your place.

As of , no bone marrow donor registry signs up people who live in the British Virgin Islands. NMDP takes residents of U.S. territories such as the neighboring U.S. Virgin Islands, but not of the British Virgin Islands, and Anthony Nolan asks whether you live in the UK. 2 3

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British Virgin Islands at a glance
RegionCaribbean, Latin America and the Caribbean, Americas 9
PopulationAbout 39,000 (2023) 10
RegistryNone found as of 8
World donor searchNo organization based in the British Virgin Islands lists adult donors or cord blood units in WMDA’s Search & Match (). 12
TransplantsThe BVI Health Services Authority says its 120-bed hospital on Tortola, British Virgin Islands, offers emergency and maternity care, hemodialysis and specialist clinics, and it describes no transplant service. 5
Where we looked4 places, in English
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What we found in the British Virgin Islands

Neither NMDP nor UK registries cover the British Virgin Islands. 2

WhereLanguageFindingDate
World Marrow Donor AssociationEnglishOn Oct 11, 2026, no organization based in the British Virgin Islands was on WMDA’s member map or in its organization database. 8 11
BVI Health Services AuthorityEnglishOn Oct 11, 2026, the site map of the British Virgin Islands Health Services Authority listed no marrow, stem cell or transplant donor items. 1
BVI NewsEnglishOn Oct 16, 2026, BVI News’s website search for “bone marrow” returned one story it had published, in February 2020, about a fundraiser for a local worker’s cancer treatment, and nothing about a donor drive or registry in the British Virgin Islands. 13
Web searchEnglishNothing to add

Can people in the British Virgin Islands join a registry abroad?

On Oct 16, 2026, DKMS UK said it keeps only full-time UK residents, and NMDP took residents of the U.S. and its territories, so the British Virgin Islands fall between the two. 2 4

Are stem cell transplants done in the British Virgin Islands?

The BVI Health Services Authority traces its hospital to the Cottage Hospital, founded in Road Town in 1922, and runs clinics on Tortola, Virgin Gorda, Jost Van Dyke and Anegada, including the Iris O’Neal Clinic on Virgin Gorda. 5

The BVI Health Services Authority says cancer is one of the most pressing public health challenges in the British Virgin Islands, and it held the BVI Cancer Prevention Conference 2025 with the BVI Cancer Society. 6

Has the British Virgin Islands announced a registry or a law?

BVI News reported in June 2023 that the Virgin Islands requires every newborn to be tested for sickle cell disease, and in September 2018 that the Ministry of Health, noting that a number of people in the territory live with the disease, brought U.S. doctors to a conference on its newest treatments. 14 15

Questions about the British Virgin Islands

Can a hospital in the British Virgin Islands search abroad for a donor?

The UK government’s travel advice says the Dr D. Orlando Smith Hospital is the only hospital in the British Virgin Islands and that complex medical problems are often referred to hospitals in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico or the U.S. mainland. 7

The UK government’s travel advice adds that people in the British Virgin Islands without a U.S. visa who need medical evacuation to the U.S. mainland need special arrangements, because the ESTA visa waiver doesn’t automatically apply on one-off charter flights. 7

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Sources

How we check

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Registries

  1. BVI Health Services Authority. BVIHSA sitemaps (327 URLs).
  2. NMDP. Join the donor registry | NMDP (Formerly Be The Match).
  3. Anthony Nolan. Apply to join the stem cell register — Eligibility.
  4. DKMS Foundation (DKMS UK). Frequently Asked Questions | DKMS UK.
  5. BVI Health Services Authority. About BVIHSA. Checked
  6. BVI Health Services Authority. BVI Cancer Prevention Conference 2025. 2025. Checked

Official bodies

  1. Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (GOV.UK). British Virgin Islands travel advice: Health. Updated Nov 3, 2025. Checked

Figures and lists

  1. World Marrow Donor Association (WMDA). Find your registry.
  2. United Nations Statistics Division. Standard country or area codes for statistical use (M49): Overview (English table).
  3. UN DESA Population Division. World Population Prospects 2024: Total population by sex (CSV).
  4. WMDA (Share, Organisation data public access). Database.
  5. WMDA. WMDA Total Number of Donors and Cord blood units.

Other sources

  1. BVI News. Search results for "bone marrow". Checked
  2. BVI News. Everyone should get tested for sickle cell disease. Updated Jun 21, 2023. Checked
  3. BVI News. Medical experts visiting BVI to share 'revolutionary' sickle cell treatment. Updated Sep 6, 2018. Checked