Is there a bone marrow registry in Eritrea?

Eritrea’s care for children with cancer is still being built, Archemed said in 2025. [14]

A search of Shabait for “cancer” on Oct 16, 2026 found Eritrea’s work on cervical cancer, including school lectures and a nationwide vaccination program from Nov 21 to 25, 2022, but nothing on blood cancers or stem cell transplants. [8]

An English web search on Oct 16, 2026 found no registry or transplant service in Eritrea; it led to a 2019 BMC Hematology study saying the Eritrean National Health Laboratory is the only laboratory in Eritrea able to examine bone marrow samples. [13]

South Africa’s two registries don’t take people living in Eritrea: on Oct 11, 2026, DKMS Africa’s form asked first whether you live in South Africa, and SABMR excluded anyone not living there. DKMS Africa takes other nationals only after 18 months living in South Africa. [1, 2, 3]

Of 207 patients whose bone marrow was examined at the Eritrean National Health Laboratory from October 2015 to July 2017, 52 had a blood cancer, most often acute leukemia, a 2019 study in BMC Hematology found. [13]

From 2020 to 2022 Essen University Hospital in Germany and Orotta Hospital ran the EriChildCan project to improve childhood cancer care in Eritrea, where, the project description says, no treatment had been available for children with cancer. [4]

Archemed’s report on its August 2024 mission says Eritrea is building a designated oncology center, finishing a building first planned for radiotherapy and nuclear medicine that stood as a shell for years, and that the first child with Hodgkin lymphoma had been treated in Eritrea. [15]