Guest editorial: Organ trafficking and transplant tourism: a call for international collaboration

Alireza Bagheri1, Francis L. Delmonico2
1Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
2Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital Transplant Center, Boston, MA, USA

Tóm tắt

Từ khóa


Tài liệu tham khảo

Bagheri, A. 2007. Asia in the spotlight of international organ trade: Time to take action. Asian Journal of WTO and International Health Law and Policy 2(1): 11–24.

Budiani-Saberi, D.A., and F.L. Delmonico. 2008. Organ trafficking and transplant tourism: A commentary on the global realities. American Journal of Transplantation 8(5): 925.

Gill, Jagbir, Bhaskara R. Madhira, Gjertson David, et al. 2008. Transplant tourism in the United States: A single-center experience. Clinical Journal of American Society Nephrology 3: 1820–1828.

Joint Council of Europe and United Nations study. 2009. Trafficking in organs, tissues and cells and trafficking in human beings for the purpose of the removal of organs. Available at: http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/trafficking/Docs/News/OrganTrafficking_study.pdf [last visited Jan. 12, 2013].

Steering Committee of the Istanbul Summit. 2008. Organ trafficking and transplant tourism and commercialism: The Declaration of Istanbul. The Lancet 372: 5–6.

UN Protocol 2000. Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children, Available at: http://www.uncjin.org/Documents/Conventions/dcatoc/final_documents_2/convention_%20traff_eng.pdf [last visited Jan. 12, 2013].

US Trafficking in Person Report. 2012. Available at: http://www.state.gov/j/tip/rls/tiprpt/ [last visited Jan. 2013].

WHO’s Guiding Principles on Human Cell, Tissue and Organ Transplantation. 2010. Available at: http://www.who.int/transplantation/Guiding_PrinciplesTransplantation_WHA63.22en.pdf [last visited Nov. 5, 2012].