Gabriel M Danovitch, Jeremy Chapman, Alexander M Capron, Adeera Levin, Mario Abbud-Filho, Mustafa Al Mousawi, William Bennett, Debra Budiani-Saberi, William Couser, Ian Dittmer, Vivek Jha, Jacob Lavee, Dominique Martin, Marwan Masri, Saraladevi Naicker, Shiro Takahara, Annika Tibell, Faissal Shaheen, Vathsala Anantharaman, Francis L Delmonico
By 2005, human organ trafficking, commercialization, and transplant tourism had become a prominent and pervasive influence on transplantation therapy. The most common source of organs was impoverished people in India, Pakistan, Egypt, and the Philippines, deceased organ donors in Colombia, and executed prisoners in China. In response, in May 2008, The Transplantation Society and the International Society of Nephrology developed the Declaration of Istanbul on Organ Trafficking and Transplant Tourism consisting of a preamble, a set of principles, and a series of proposals...
June 15, 2013: Transplantation