2018

Organ Transplantation in Colombia

GENERAL AND DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION Colombia is located on the Northern tip of South American. The country is borderingMiddle-America, Venezuela, and the Pacific and Atlantic Ocean in the north, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil in the South (Figure 1). Colombia has approximately 50 Mio inhabitants (49293087 as of 2018) living in a 1142000 km2 surface area that […]

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The Declaration of Istanbul on Organ Trafficking and Transplant Tourism

Summary Organ commercialism, which targets vulnerable populations (such as illiterate and impoverished persons, undocumented immigrants, prisoners, and political or economic refugees) in resource-poor countries, has been condemned by international bodies such as the World Health Organization for decades. Yet in recent years, as a consequence of the increasing ease of Internet communicatio. And the willingness

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