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Is there a bone marrow registry in Vietnam?

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As of , no bone marrow donor registry signs up people who live in Vietnam. Transplant teams here can search registries abroad for a patient. Vietnam’s first transplant from an unrelated donor, in September 2017, used cells from Taiwan’s Tzu Chi center, Báo Sài Gòn Giải Phóng reported. 12

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Vietnam at a glance
PlaceVietnam (Việt Nam) 15
RegionSouth-eastern Asia, Asia 9
PopulationAbout 100.4 million (2023) 10
RegistryNone found as of 7 8
World donor searchNo organization based in Vietnam lists adult donors in WMDA’s Search & Match (). 7
TransplantsHue Central Hospital opened a new marrow transplant room on Aug 21, 2025 and had done 60 stem cell transplants in children, 10 of them from donors for thalassemia, Báo Đại biểu Nhân dân reported; DKMS funded its expansion from two to four transplant rooms. 6 14
Where we looked6 places, in English and Vietnamese
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What we found in Vietnam

DKMS supports a children’s transplant unit in Hue, Vietnam; no donor registry found. 6

WhereLanguageFindingDate
World Marrow Donor AssociationEnglishOn Oct 11, 2026, the World Marrow Donor Association’s member map and statistics listed no organization based in Vietnam; its organization database had only a Ho Chi Minh City hospital’s cord blood bank, with no membership and no listed units. 7 8 11
Viện Huyết học - Truyền máu Trung ương (NIHBT)VietnameseOn Oct 11, 2026, the stem cell bank of Vietnam’s National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion offered paid family cord blood storage, at about 21 to 25 million dong for the first year, and searches of its website for stem cell donation found no volunteer donor sign-up. 1 2
Web searchVietnameseA November 2023 report in Pháp Luật TP.HCM (PLO) said Vietnam still has no law and no bank of marrow and stem cell donors, so donors come from banks abroad such as Taiwan and China. 13
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Can people in Vietnam join a registry abroad?

On Oct 18, 2026, the Thai Red Cross signed up stem cell donors only at blood donation points in Thailand, on the day they give blood, so there is no way to join Thailand’s registry from Vietnam. 4 5

Has Vietnam announced a registry or a law?

Báo Sài Gòn Giải Phóng reported in November 2017 that Vietnam had no bank of volunteer stem cell donors, and in November 2023 the director of Ho Chi Minh City’s Blood Transfusion Hematology Hospital was still calling for a law and a donor bank, PLO reported. 12 13

Questions about Vietnam

Are bone marrow or stem cell transplants done in Vietnam?

Hue Central Hospital opened a new marrow transplant room on Aug 21, 2025 and had done 60 stem cell transplants in children, 10 of them from donors for thalassemia, Báo Đại biểu Nhân dân reported; DKMS funded its expansion from two to four transplant rooms. 6 14

Can a hospital in Vietnam search abroad for a donor?

Hospitals in Vietnam search registries abroad: PLO reported in November 2023 that Ho Chi Minh City’s Blood Transfusion Hematology Hospital did about 80 marrow and stem cell transplants that year and must source unrelated donors from banks in places such as Taiwan and China. 13

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Sources

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Registries

  1. Viện Huyết học - Truyền máu Trung ương (National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, NIHBT). Ngân hàng Tế bào gốc (Stem Cell Bank) archive, plus site searches for "hiến tế bào gốc" and "người hiến tế bào gốc".
  2. Viện Huyết học - Truyền máu Trung ương (NIHBT). Lưu giữ máu dây rốn như thế nào? (How is cord blood stored?). Updated Jun 23, 2024.
  3. Bệnh viện Truyền máu Huyết học TP.HCM (Blood Transfusion Hematology Hospital, HCMC). Hospital home page.
  4. Thai National Stem Cell Donor Registry (TSCDR), National Blood Centre, Thai Red Cross Society. ลงทะเบียนเป็นอาสาสมัครบริจาคสเต็มเซลล์ (Register as a stem cell donor volunteer).
  5. Thai National Stem Cell Donor Registry (TSCDR), National Blood Centre, Thai Red Cross Society. HOPE HERO ... ฉลองวันผู้บริจาคสเต็มเซลล์โลก ปี 2568 (World Marrow Donor Day 2025 campaign). 2025.
  6. DKMS (professional site). Empowering Change - DKMS funds first International Thalassemia Conference in Hue, Vietnam.

Figures and lists

  1. WMDA. WMDA Total Number of Donors and Cord blood units.
  2. World Marrow Donor Association (WMDA). Find your registry.
  3. United Nations Statistics Division. Standard country or area codes for statistical use (M49): Overview (English table).
  4. UN DESA Population Division. World Population Prospects 2024: Total population by sex (CSV).
  5. WMDA (Share, Organisation data public access). Database.

Other sources

  1. Báo Sài Gòn Giải Phóng. Lần đầu tại Việt Nam ghép thành công tế bào gốc không cùng huyết thống (First unrelated stem cell transplant in Viet Nam). Updated Nov 16, 2017.
  2. Pháp Luật TP.HCM (PLO) / Tuổi Trẻ. Việt Nam cần sớm có luật và ngân hàng người hiến tủy xương, tế bào gốc (Viet Nam needs a law and a bank of marrow / stem cell donors). Updated Nov 24, 2023.
  3. Báo Đại biểu Nhân dân. Thêm cơ hội ghép tủy cho người bệnh Thalassemia miền Trung - Tây Nguyên. Updated Aug 22, 2025.
  4. Unicode CLDR. By-Type Chart: Locale Display Names:Territories (Asia). Checked