Is there a bone marrow registry in Burkina Faso?

Burkina Faso’s 2020 transplant law leaves out stem cell grafts. [9]

France’s registry, checked on Oct 11, 2026, takes people living abroad only if they plan to move back to France, and they must give a French address for the saliva kit, so people who live in Burkina Faso can’t join it. [3]

South Africa’s two registries take only people who live in South Africa: on Oct 11, 2026, DKMS Africa’s form asked first whether you live there, and SABMR excluded anyone not living there, so people in Burkina Faso can’t join either from home. [6, 7]

Burkina Faso’s health ministry said that from 2020 to 2022 the country spent about 4 billion CFA francs evacuating patients abroad, notably with cancers and heart, eye, bone and joint diseases, to Tunisia, France, Morocco and Ghana. [10]

Burkina Faso’s health minister said in a June 2025 World Sickle Cell Day message that the disease can’t currently be cured except in exceptional cases of a bone marrow transplant, and that it is diagnosed in Burkina Faso’s medical centers and hospitals. [11]

Burkina Faso’s Law 038-2020/AN, adopted on Dec 18, 2020, covers the donation and transplant of organs, tissues and human cells, requires authorized hospitals to keep a register, and leaves the list of organs, tissues and cells to a decree. [9]

Burkina Faso’s 2020 law created a national control and ethics committee for donation and transplants, attached to the health minister, to keep the registers of donations, retrievals and transplants, and it makes donation free and anonymous, except between related living donors. [9]

Under Burkina Faso’s 2020 law, bone marrow may be taken from a child for a brother or sister only with the free, informed consent of the parents or legal guardian, given before the president of the high court where the child lives. [9]