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What’s worse than having Leukaemia?

Being Black and having Leukaemia

We’re all the same underneath aren’t we?

Not when it comes to Leukaemia

How many leukaemia patients die because they're black?

If you’re unlucky enough to get leukaemia

We hope you are lucky enough to be white

So what…if you are Black or Mixed race?

It’s shocking but it’s true, your chances of finding a lifesaving bone marrow donor ARE much more worse if you’re BLACK

…because there are 24 times more white people than black people on UK bone marrow registers.

The ACLT recently held two Super Donation Days, which aimed to boost the number of lifesaving bone marrow donors. These were the results:

Choice FM (Global Radio) in Leicester Square – Saturday 22nd June

75 new potential bone marrow donors

Galaxy FM (Global Radio) in Birmingham – Saturday 10th July

28 new potential bone marrow donors

These numbers fall far short of our expectations and have left us flummoxed as to why the response has been so low.

For years we have heard the ‘needles’ fears of our communities and in response we have now made it easier to register with the new quick and easy saliva test…
YET the response has been pitiful!

We launched a local and regional media campaign to encourage the Black, Mixed race and Asian communities to step forward as lifesavers. The valiant few who did sign up at these 2 events were mainly people who had been approached by our street teams in Leicester Square or Birmingham city centre.

Our street teams and promoters were shocked by the excuses they received.

Have Your Say

We want to better understand the huge increase in apathy and reluctance of the public, starting with the Black & Mixed Race community. We urge people from these communities to have their say and submit participate in a short opinion poll.

Are you aware of the issue?
Are you bothered?
Is this a priority concern for you today?

We must understand people’s motivations and act now to try and prevent the lack of donors having a detrimental impact on the lives of those sufferers in urgent need.

Please take 5 minutes to send us your views to:

info@aclt.org

PLEASE SIGNPOST TO FAMILY, FRIENDS AND WORK COLLEAGUES
so we can get to the heart of this urgent issue.

Unite to Fight Leukaemia

PLEASE CLICK HERE TO READ ABOUT THE 2 DONATION PROCEDURES

Thank you

Please click here for upcoming ACLT's 2010 Recruitment drives dates & venues or click here to order a Saliva application pack from Anthony Nolan, which will be sent to you within three working days. Each pack will contain a simple saliva testing kit which you use to send a small sample back to Anthony Nolan. That is all you need to join the register and help save leukaemia patient’s lives.

Alternatively, If you are unable to attend any of the ACLT drives please (before you go off on holiday especially to a country with a high risk of Malaria) click here for details of the:

NATIONAL BLOOD SERVICE & BLOOD DONATION CENTRES
Tel 0300 123 2323

Thank you for reading the above information and we hope that this campaign inspires you to register as a donor and that you will also support the ACLT because our life saving work is self funded, without any government funding.