Heal Emru Flyer Sightings

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About Heal Emru Flyer Sightings

If you have seen or put up a poster for the Heal Emru campaign, appealing to the public to learn about and register for the bone marrow registry, this is the group to add a picture.

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Include the location of the flyer.
Hyperlink the location if they have a website.
Use the map feature to show where the flyer is posted.
Add "heal emru" and the city location in the tags
Add a link to Heal Emru in the description so people know were to find out more.

Where to get flyers

Emru needs a bone marrow transplant. This kind of therapy is administered through a transplant of bone marrow stem cells from a matching donor. The highest chances for a match are from siblings, but his only sister is not a match. As a result, he must to turn to national and international bone marrow registries to find a compatible donor. There are 11 million donors worldwide, but there is still no guarantee that he will find a match: The chances of matching another person can be as high 1 in 450 or lower than 1 in 750,000. Time is of the essence as the optimal window of opportunity is in the first few months after remission.

A broad and diverse array of donors are required because the chance of finding a match requires finding the right combination of matching human leukocyte antigens (HLAs) between donor and recipient. While anyone, anywhere can be a potential match, his best chance for a match comes from a donor who shares his ethnic background. As the son of two African Carribean parents, his chances are further diminished as blacks are underrepresented in bone marrow registries worldwide.

You can help by registering for your country's bone marrow registry and spreading the word about the need to diversify its database.

In response to the lack of understanding and visibility surrounding the bone marrow registry, and the donation process should someone match, friends and family decided to create their own media campaign to help Emru, educate everyone about the registry and highlight the need to diversify the donor pool. A tall order, but it can be done if everyone pitches in.

Registering can help save not only Emru's life, but that of one of the many other patients worldwide waiting for a bone marrow transplant.

It's easy for healthy, eligible adults to join:

1. Visit your registry's website or local office.
2. You must complete a form consenting to be added to the registry.
3. Provide a mouth swab or a blood sample. That's it!

http://www.healemru.com