Is there a bone marrow registry in the Republic of the Congo?

Congo’s health ministry site had nothing on bone marrow. [9]

AlloDocteurs Africa reported in January 2023 that Congo’s national sickle cell reference center was caring for 32,000 people with the disease: 23,000 in Brazzaville, 5,000 in Pointe-Noire and 4,000 in Dolisie and Nkayi. [18]

WHO’s Africa office reported in June 2019 that Congo’s sickle cell reference center saw more than 8,000 patients in its first six months, and planned the country’s first sickle cell survey since 1984 and a specialist diploma at Marien Ngouabi University in Brazzaville. [8]

WHO’s Africa office said in June 2019 that Antoinette Sassou Nguesso, Congo’s first lady, had raised money to run the sickle cell reference center through her Fondation Congo Assistance, and that WHO had given the center a hematology analyzer. [8]

Pr Alexis Elira Dokekias, who has led Congo’s sickle cell reference center since it opened, told WHO’s Africa office in June 2019 that he wanted it to serve the whole subregion as a center of excellence for screening, treatment and follow-up. [8]

France’s registry, checked on Oct 11, 2026, takes people living abroad only if they plan to move back to France, and they must give a French address for the saliva kit, so people who live in the Republic of the Congo can’t join it. [2]

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 the Republic of the Congo can’t join either from home. [6, 7]

Les Dépêches de Brazzaville via allAfrica reported that the March 2025 board meeting of Congo’s sickle cell reference center, chaired by Michel Mongo of the Fondation Congo Assistance, adopted a 2025 budget of 1,447,782,000 CFA francs, up 25.47% on the year before. [17]

Congo’s Ministry of Health and Population posts Law 28-2015 of Oct 29, 2015, which created the national sickle cell center named for Antoinette Sassou Nguesso; WHO’s Africa office said the center opened in Brazzaville that year, attached to the university hospital but managing itself. [8, 10]