VIETNAM · ASIA
Is there a bone marrow registry in Vietnam?
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As of , we haven’t found a bone marrow donor registry that people who live in Vietnam can join. That doesn’t mean there isn’t one. 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. 11
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| Place | Vietnam (Việt Nam) |
|---|---|
| Region | South-eastern Asia, Asia 7 |
| Population | About 100.4 million (2023) 8 |
| Registry | None found as of 5 6 10 |
| In the world’s donor search | No organization based in Vietnam lists adult donors in the World Marrow Donor Association’s Search & Match (). 5 |
| Transplants | 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. 4 13 |
| Where we looked | 6 places, in English and Vietnamese |
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A bone marrow donor registry is also called a stem cell or blood stem cell donor registry.
What we found in Vietnam
We looked in 6 places, in English and Vietnamese, for a registry that signs up people who live in Vietnam.
DKMS supports a children’s transplant unit in Hue, Vietnam; no donor registry found. 4
| Where we looked | Language | What we found | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| The World Marrow Donor Association’s lists | English | On 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. 6 9 10 | |
| The website of Viện Huyết học - Truyền máu Trung ương (NIHBT) | Vietnamese | On 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 | |
| A web search | Vietnamese | On Oct 11, 2026, the newest statement we found was a November 2023 report in Pháp Luật TP.HCM (PLO), which 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. 12 | |
3 more searches, Oct 11, 2026, in Vietnamese: nothing to add
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Has Vietnam announced a registry or a law?
What you can do today
- Live somewhere else most of the year? Find the registry where you live
- A patient or family member? Transplant teams here can search registries abroad. Help someone who needs a donor
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. 4 13
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. 12
Questions about donating itself have their own pages: Does it hurt?, How donation works and Recovery.
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The registries’ own pages
- 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".
- 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.
- Bệnh viện Truyền máu Huyết học TP.HCM (Blood Transfusion Hematology Hospital, HCMC). Hospital home page.
- DKMS (professional site). Empowering Change - DKMS funds first International Thalassemia Conference in Hue, Vietnam.
The World Marrow Donor Association and other figures
- WMDA. WMDA Total Number of Donors and Cord blood units.
- World Marrow Donor Association (WMDA). Find your registry.
- 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 (Share, Organisation data public access). Database.
- WMDA. WMDA Total Number of Donors and Cord blood units.
Research and other sources
- 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.
- 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.
- Báo Đại biểu Nhân dân. Thêm cơ hội ghép tủy cho người bệnh Thalassemia miền Trung - Tây Nguyên. Updated Aug 22, 2025.