Transplantation
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Updated WHO Guiding Principles on Human Cell, Tissue and Organ Transplantation
Following resolution WHA57.18 of the fifty-seventh World Health Assembly the updated Guiding Principles have been developed through an extensive consultation process over more than three years. These Guiding Principles were discussed by Executive Boards 123 and 124 and will be submitted to the World Health Assembly with the attached resolution of the 124th session of the Executive Board.
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Human to human (allogeneic) transplantation of cell tissue and organs has become the best treatment and often only for a wide range of both fatal and non fatal diseases. Therefore transplantation activity has been increasing over the previous decades. However the human origin of the therapeutic material entails the potential for safety and ethical violations.
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For example , the exploitation of living donors and the trafficking of human material for transplantation is reported in countries from each of the six WHO Regions.
Concerns for safety related to the failure of transplantation can be ascribed to insufficient quality of the transplanted in addition to substandard practices in transplantation. Moreover, the risks of transmission of infections from the donor to the recipient is a significant safety concern.
Following resolution WHA57.18. of the World Health Assembly in May 2004, transplantation has became an area of work at WHO. The mission of WHO on transplantation is carried out by the Clinical Procedure Unit in the Department of Essential Health Technologies (EHT/CPR).
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World Health Assembly Resolution WHA57.18
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