Global Kidney Exchange (GKE) is a program aimed at facilitating trans-national kidney donation. Although its proponents aim at reducing the unmet demand of kidneys in the United States through the trans-nationalization of kidney exchange programs, the World Health Organization (WHO) and The Transplantation Society (TTS) have expressed concerns about its potential effect on black markets of organs and transnational organ trafficking, as well as on low- or middle-income countries health systems. For GKE to be implemented, it would need to be permitted to operate in at least some low- or middle-income countries. What are the right to health implications of GKE’s implementation? With the aim of answering this question, the eighteen University o...
peer reviewedBACKGROUND: Considerable differences exist among the living donor Kidney Exchange Progr...
Not enough kidneys are donated each year to satisfy the demand from patients who need them. Strong m...
There are thousands of desperate people globally who need a kidney for transplantation. The number o...
Global Kidney Exchange (GKE) is a program aimed at facilitating trans-national kidney donation. Alth...
Global Kidney Exchange (GKE) is a program aimed at facilitating trans-national kidney donation. Alth...
This paper addresses ethical, legal, and psychosocial aspects of Global Kidney Exchange (GKE). Conce...
We read with great interest and appreciation the careful consideration and analysis by Ambagtsheer e...
The Global Kidney Exchange (GKE) programme seeks to facilitate kidney transplants by matching donor–...
Recent innovations in biomedicine and medical technologies within the last 40 years have altered und...
The organ trafficking market is on the rise worldwide. Numerous unfortunate stories of networks of b...
Using an unbalanced annual dataset from 63 countries over 1998-2002, we show that improvements in eq...
In India, as in most countries where trade in human organs is legally prohibited, policies governing...
Each year, thousands of people in the United States die from end stage renal disease (ESRD), despite...
Achievement of equity in health requires development of a health system in which everyone has a fair...
Kidney transplantation is the treatment of choice for end-stage renal disease. Unfortunately, in mos...
peer reviewedBACKGROUND: Considerable differences exist among the living donor Kidney Exchange Progr...
Not enough kidneys are donated each year to satisfy the demand from patients who need them. Strong m...
There are thousands of desperate people globally who need a kidney for transplantation. The number o...
Global Kidney Exchange (GKE) is a program aimed at facilitating trans-national kidney donation. Alth...
Global Kidney Exchange (GKE) is a program aimed at facilitating trans-national kidney donation. Alth...
This paper addresses ethical, legal, and psychosocial aspects of Global Kidney Exchange (GKE). Conce...
We read with great interest and appreciation the careful consideration and analysis by Ambagtsheer e...
The Global Kidney Exchange (GKE) programme seeks to facilitate kidney transplants by matching donor–...
Recent innovations in biomedicine and medical technologies within the last 40 years have altered und...
The organ trafficking market is on the rise worldwide. Numerous unfortunate stories of networks of b...
Using an unbalanced annual dataset from 63 countries over 1998-2002, we show that improvements in eq...
In India, as in most countries where trade in human organs is legally prohibited, policies governing...
Each year, thousands of people in the United States die from end stage renal disease (ESRD), despite...
Achievement of equity in health requires development of a health system in which everyone has a fair...
Kidney transplantation is the treatment of choice for end-stage renal disease. Unfortunately, in mos...
peer reviewedBACKGROUND: Considerable differences exist among the living donor Kidney Exchange Progr...
Not enough kidneys are donated each year to satisfy the demand from patients who need them. Strong m...
There are thousands of desperate people globally who need a kidney for transplantation. The number o...