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Title: Organ Trafficking and Transplant Tourism: The Role of Global Professional Ethical Standards-The 2008 Declaration of Istanbul
Authors: Danovitch, Gabriel M
Chapman, Jeremy
Capron, Alexander M
Levin, Adeera
Abbud-Filho, Mario
Al Mousawi, Mustafa
Bennett, William
Budiani-Saberi, Debra
Couser, William
Dittmer, Ian
Jha, Vivek
Lavee, Jacob
Martin, Dominique
Masri, Marwan
Naicker, Saraladevi
Takahara, Shiro
Tibell, Annika
Shaheen, Faissal
Anantharaman, Vathsala 
Delmonico, Francis L
Keywords: Science & Technology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Immunology
Surgery
Transplantation
Declaration of Istanbul
Organ trafficking
Transplant tourism
DONATION
POLICY
CHINA
LAW
SOCIETY
ISRAEL
TRADE
INDIA
Issue Date: 15-Jun-2013
Publisher: LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
Citation: Danovitch, Gabriel M, Chapman, Jeremy, Capron, Alexander M, Levin, Adeera, Abbud-Filho, Mario, Al Mousawi, Mustafa, Bennett, William, Budiani-Saberi, Debra, Couser, William, Dittmer, Ian, Jha, Vivek, Lavee, Jacob, Martin, Dominique, Masri, Marwan, Naicker, Saraladevi, Takahara, Shiro, Tibell, Annika, Shaheen, Faissal, Anantharaman, Vathsala, Delmonico, Francis L (2013-06-15). Organ Trafficking and Transplant Tourism: The Role of Global Professional Ethical Standards-The 2008 Declaration of Istanbul. TRANSPLANTATION 95 (11) : 1306-1312. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1097/TP.0b013e318295ee7d
Abstract: 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. Promulgation of the Declaration of Istanbul and the formation of the Declaration of Istanbul Custodian Group to promote and uphold its principles have demonstrated that concerted, strategic, collaborative, and persistent actions by professionals can deliver tangible changes. Over the past 5 years, the Declaration of Istanbul Custodian Group organized and encouraged cooperation among professional bodies and relevant international, regional, and national governmental organizations, which has produced significant progress in combating organ trafficking and transplant tourism around the world. At a fifth anniversary meeting in Qatar in April 2013, the DICG took note of this progress and set forth in a Communiqué a number of specific activities and resolved to further engage groups from many sectors in working toward the Declaration's objectives. Copyright © 2013 by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Source Title: TRANSPLANTATION
URI: https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/229384
ISSN: 00411337
15346080
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e318295ee7d
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