Transplantation
Volume 95, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1306-1312

Organ trafficking and transplant tourism: The role of global professional ethical standards - The 2008 declaration of Istanbul (Review)

Danovitch G.M.* , Chapman J. , Capron A.M. , Levin A. , Abbud-Filho M. , Al Mousawi M. , Bennett W. , Budiani-Saberi D. , Couser W. , Dittmer I. , Jha V. , Lavee J. , Martin D. , Masri M. , Naicker S. , Takahara S. , Tibell A. , Shaheen F. , Anantharaman V. , Delmonico F.L.
  • a David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, 10833 Le Conte Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States
  • b RenalMedicine, Westmead Hospital, Westmead NSW, Australia
  • c Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
  • d University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
  • e Institute of Urology and Nephrology and Medical School, FAMERP/ HB-FUNFARME, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • f Hamed Al-essa Organ Transplant Center, Safat, Kuwait
  • g Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital and Health Center, Portland, OR, United States
  • h Coalition for Organ-Failure Solutions, Bethesda, MD, United States
  • i University of Washington School of Medicine, Woodinville, WA, United States
  • j Department of Renal Medicine, Auckland City Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand
  • k Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Department of Nephrology, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India
  • l Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Heart Transplantation Unit, Tel Aviv, Israel
  • m Centre for Health and Society, University of Melbourne, Carlton, VIC, Australia
  • n Transmedical for Life Research Institute, Sin El Fil, Beirut, Lebanon
  • o Department of Internal Medicine, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
  • p Department of Advanced Technology for Transplantation, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
  • q Division of Transplantation Surgery, Department of Clinical Science, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
  • r Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
  • s Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
  • t Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital Transplant Center, Boston, MA, United States

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.

Author Keywords

Transplant tourism Declaration of Istanbul Organ trafficking

Index Keywords

Pakistan China organ transplantation South and Central America Israel India health care policy Qatar cadaver donor Societies, Medical medical ethics priority journal Ethics, Professional Colombia transplant tourism international cooperation Tissue and Organ Procurement Humans North America social problem Review medical tourism Turkey government regulation Philippines practice guideline organ trafficking Egypt
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DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e318295ee7d
ISSN: 00411337
Cited by: 51
Original Language: English