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- Seventy-seventh World Health Assembly – Daily update: 30 May 2024
Lack of availability and equitable access to transplantation may lead to death or unethical or illegal practices such as transplant tourism and organ trafficking The resolution aims to improve the availability of transplantation, especially in countries with limited resources
- A seventh case of HIV cure reported at AIDS 2024
The new case (1) presented at AIDS 2024 is a 60-year-old German man living with HIV who was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia and underwent a blood stem cell transplant in 2015 from a donor with the CCR5-delta 32 mutation
- First case of HIV cure in a woman after stem cell transplantation . . .
The International Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trial Network (IMPAACT) P1107 reported the first case of HIV cure in a woman living with HIV submitted to a dual stem cell transplant (i e , an umbilical cord blood transplant combined with a half-matched bone marrow) for treatment of an acute myelogenous leukemia
- WHO guiding principles on human cell, tissue and organ transplantation
WHO guiding principles on human cell, tissue and organ transplantation - as endorsed by the sixty-third World Health Assembly in May 2010, in Resolution WHA63 22
- WHO proposes global agenda on transplantation
This week, at the second Global Consultation on Transplantation the World Health Organization (WHO) presented countries and other stakeholders with a blueprint for updated global guiding principles on cell, tissue and organ donation and transplantation Those principles aim to address a number of problems: the global shortage of human materials - particularly organs - for transplantation; the
- Latent tuberculosis infection
Executive summary Latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is defined as a state of persistent immune response to stimulation by Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens with no evidence of clinically manifest active TB There is no gold standard test for LTBI The WHO guidelines on LTBI consider the probability of progression to active TB disease in a specific risk group, the epidemiology and burden
- Framework for establishing integrated kidney care programs in low- and . . .
These partnerships can evolve into long-term relationships where the country with an established kidney transplant infra-structure can help to establish a similar system in their partner country This would signi cantly reduce the risk of fi organ traf cking and donor exploitation and may signi -fi fi cantly reduce the cost for patients
- World report on vision
In a world built on the ability to see, vision, the most dominant of our senses, is vital at every turn of our lives The newborn depends on vision to recognize and bond with its mother; the toddler, to master balance and learn to walk; the schoolboy, to walk to school, read and learn; the young woman to participate in the workforce; and the older woman, to maintain her independence Yet, as
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