| LDO Home | General | Kidney | Liver | Marrow | Experiences | Buddies | Hall of Fame | Calendar | Contact Us |

Author Topic: Global Kidney Exchange: Overcoming the Barrier of Poverty  (Read 3464 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline Clark

  • Administrator
  • Top 10 Poster!
  • *****
  • Posts: 3,015
  • Please give the gift of life!
    • Living Donors Online!
Global Kidney Exchange: Overcoming the Barrier of Poverty
« on: November 11, 2017, 03:55:08 PM »
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ajt.14469/full

Global Kidney Exchange: Overcoming the Barrier of Poverty
Lara C. Pullen PHD
American Journal of Transplantation
DOI: 10.1111/ajt.14469

Abstract
This month's installment of “The AJT Report” debates the benefits, ethics and sustainability of Global Kidney Exchange. We also look at efforts to shore kidney paired donation implementation in the United States.

Key Points
   •   Dialysis is unaffordable for most low-income individuals around the world.
   •   A newly created GKE would enable poor people from developing countries to donate and receive organs.
   •   Some stakeholders believe that a widespread GKE would be a sustainable strategy for overcoming financial barriers to transplantation, while others believe that it is misguided or even unethical.



Unrelated directed kidney donor in 2003, recipient and I both well.
620 time blood and platelet donor since 1976 and still giving!
Elected to the OPTN/UNOS Boards of Directors & Executive, Kidney Transplantation, and Ad Hoc Public Solicitation of Organ Donors Committees, 2005-2011
Proud grandpa!

 

 Subscribe in a reader



Copyright © International Association of Living Organ Donors, Inc. All Rights Reserved
traditional