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Is there a bone marrow registry in San Marino?
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As of , we haven’t found a bone marrow donor registry that people who live in San Marino can join. That doesn’t mean there isn’t one. San Marino’s transfusion service gets its blood from AVSSO, the Sammarinese Volunteer Blood and Organ Association, and the only San Marino organization in WMDA’s database is a private cord blood bank. 3 7
| Region | Southern Europe, Europe 8 |
|---|---|
| Population | About 33,700 (2023) 9 |
| Registry | None found as of 6 |
| World donor search | No organization based in San Marino lists adult donors or cord blood units in WMDA’s Search & Match (). 10 |
| Where we looked | 3 places, in Italian |
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What we found in San Marino
San Marino’s health service covers blood donation; no stem cell donor registry was found. 3
| Where | Language | Finding | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Istituto per la Sicurezza Sociale (ISS), San Marino | Italian | On Oct 11, 2026, the transfusion medicine department of San Marino’s Social Security Institute described blood supply through AVSSO donors, with nothing on stem cell or marrow donor registration. 3 | |
| World Marrow Donor Association | English | On Oct 11, 2026, the only organization in San Marino in the World Marrow Donor Association’s database was a private company that stores cord blood for families, and it lists no units in WMDA’s search. 2 7 | |
| Istituto per la Sicurezza Sociale (ISS, San Marino) | Italian | On Jun 14, 2019, San Marino’s Social Security Institute said its transfusion center amply met San Marino’s needs for red cells, plasma and platelets, with 701 whole-blood donations in 2018, and reported a meeting on blood, marrow and organ donation led by two doctors from Italy’s Emilia-Romagna regional transplant center. 4 |
Can people in San Marino join a registry abroad?
Italy’s registry, IBMDR, asks people who join to stay in Italy for at least six months, according to its rules on Oct 15, 2026, so it doesn’t sign up people who live in San Marino. 1
Has San Marino announced a registry or a law?
San Marino’s Delegated Decree No. 106 of Aug 17, 2016, in its final text of Jan 18, 2017, sets quality and safety rules for donating, collecting, testing, storing and distributing blood stem cells from blood, cord blood and bone marrow, under Law No. 7 of Jan 21, 2010. 5
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Registries
- IBMDR - E.O. Ospedali Galliera. Iscrizione al Registro Nazionale Italiano Donatori di Midollo Osseo.
- InScientiaFides S.p.A. Conservazione cellule staminali: biobanca del cordone ombelicale.
Official bodies
- Istituto per la Sicurezza Sociale (ISS), San Marino. UOC Medicina Trasfusionale e Patologia Clinica.
- Istituto per la Sicurezza Sociale (ISS, San Marino). Donazione di sangue. Updated Jun 14, 2019. Checked
- Consiglio Grande e Generale (Repubblica di San Marino). Decreto Delegato 18 gennaio 2017 n.11 (Ratifica Decreto Delegato 17 agosto 2016 n.106): attuazione delle direttive europee in materia di qualità e di sicurezza per tessuti e cellule umani. Updated Jan 18, 2017. Checked
Figures and lists
- World Marrow Donor Association (WMDA). Find your registry.
- WMDA. WMDA Share organisation database (public view).
- United Nations Statistics Division. Standard country or area codes for statistical use (M49): Overview (English table).
- UN DESA Population Division. World Population Prospects 2024: Total population by sex (CSV).
- WMDA. WMDA Total Number of Donors and Cord blood units.