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Is there a bone marrow registry in Western Sahara?

For people who live in Western Sahara. Live somewhere else? Find your place.

As of , we haven’t found enough to verify a way to join from Western Sahara yet. That doesn’t mean there isn’t one. No donor registry or sign-up route we found names Western Sahara, and on Oct 11, 2026 the health and blood services we could read in neighboring Morocco and Algeria had no stem cell donor registry either. 4

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Western Sahara at a glance
PlaceWestern Sahara (الصحراء الغربية) 10
RegionNorthern Africa, Africa 8
PopulationAbout 580,000 (2023) 9
RegistryNone found as of 6 7
World donor searchNo organization based in Western Sahara lists adult donors or cord blood units in WMDA’s Search & Match (). 7
Where we looked9 places, in English, French, Arabic and Spanish
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What we found in Western Sahara

WhereLanguageFindingDate
World Marrow Donor AssociationEnglishOn Oct 11, 2026, WMDA’s map of member registries showed none based in Western Sahara, and no organization based in Western Sahara listed donor records in WMDA’s Search & Match. 6 7
Ministère de la Santé et de la Protection Sociale, MarocFrenchOn Oct 11, 2026, the homepage of Morocco’s Ministry of Health and Social Protection had nothing on bone marrow or a stem cell donor registry, and the link it gives for the national blood transfusion center didn’t resolve, so we found no route there for people in Western Sahara. 4
Agence Nationale du Sang (ANS), AlgérieArabicOn Oct 11, 2026, the homepage of Algeria’s national blood agency covered blood and apheresis donation only, with no stem cell donor registry, so we found no route there for people in Western Sahara.
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  • Web search Spanish, Arabic and English · 4 searches,
  • Ministère de la Santé, Mauritanie French ·
  • NMDP English ·

Can people in Western Sahara join a registry abroad?

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 Western Sahara can’t join either from home. 2 3

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Sources

How we check

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Registries

  1. NMDP. Cooperative Registries.
  2. DKMS Africa (DKMS Foundation NPC). Register as a potential donor.
  3. South African Bone Marrow Registry (SABMR). Donor Exclusion Criteria.

Official bodies

  1. Ministère de la Santé et de la Protection Sociale, Maroc. Accueil.
  2. Agence Nationale des Greffes (ANG), Algérie. ANG website.

Figures and lists

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

Other sources

  1. Unicode CLDR. By-Type Chart: Locale Display Names:Territories (Africa). Checked