Its been a year since OneMatch made its call for more non-Caucasian donors. What are the results??
OneMatch has made tremendous strides in recruiting more donors from diverse ethnic backgrounds in just a one-year period. In the past year, there have been more than 3,600 new registrants from non-Caucasian backgrounds. That’s an overall increase of 120 per cent in new donors from non-Caucasian backgrounds. We have seen the most growth in ethnic donors among the Asian and South Asian communities. For example, new Asian donors account for a 283 per cent increase from last year. But even with OneMatch’s advances, there is still more room to grow. From January to September this year, the majority of new registrants are Caucasian. About 73 per cent of new registrants have been Caucasian and 27 per cent listed as other ethnicities. Click here for the ethnic breakdown of the current potential stem cell donors in Canada.
