09Oct/18

South Africa: What You Need to Know About SA’s Historic Liver Transplant From an HIV-Positive Donor – AllAfrica.com

South Africa: What You Need to Know About SA’s Historic Liver Transplant From an HIV-Positive Donor
AllAfrica.com
But HIV-positive persons can often be deceased donors, especially in the donation of kidneys from HIV-positive people to other people with the virus. Before this case, we would not have usually have considered HIV-positive people as living donors

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09Oct/18

European Day for Organ Donation and Transplantation (EODD) 2018 – Council of Europe (press release)


Council of Europe (press release)

European Day for Organ Donation and Transplantation (EODD) 2018
Council of Europe (press release)
“In a few days (on 13 October 2018) the 19th European Day for Organ Donation and Transplantation (EODD) will be celebrated in Chisinau, the Republic of Moldova and across the continent. To mark the occasion, the Croatian chairmanship of the Committee …

09Oct/18

The ‘unfair’ blood donation ban – Warwick Daily News


Warwick Daily News

The ‘unfair’ blood donation ban
Warwick Daily News
THERE are fresh calls for an effective ban on homosexual men donating blood to be quashed in Australia, as “science moves on” from outdated and discriminatory policies. Under current exclusion policies, a male prospective donor who has had sex with a …
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HIV on the rise in straight Australian men, Kirby Institute reportThe Sydney Morning Herald
Gay blood donation regulations back on TGA’s agendaThe Australian
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09Oct/18

Cultural reasons hamper skin and organ donation drive – Independent Online


Independent Online

Cultural reasons hamper skin and organ donation drive
Independent Online
That is why the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) Centre for Tissue Engineering and the Organ Donor Foundation have issued an urgent plea for more people to become skin and organ donors. TUT’s Sandra Venter said cultural reasons and a lack of …