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Transplantation - World Health Organization (WHO) Initiated by the Fortieth World Health Assembly, the WHO Guiding principles on human cell, tissue and organ transplantation are a significant contribution to this area of health care, providing an orderly, ethical and acceptable framework for the acquisition and transplantation of human cells, tissues and organs for therapeutic purposes
Seventy-seventh World Health Assembly – Daily update: 30 May 2024 Delegates approve groundbreaking new agreement on transplantation On 29 May 2024, Member States (with the initiation of Spain) approved a new resolution on increasing availability, ethical access and oversight of transplantation of human cells, tissues and organs
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 However, the stem cell donor had a single instead of a double CCR5-delta 32 mutation, which is an important difference
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 proposes global agenda on transplantation Reports on 'transplant tourism' show that it makes up an estimated 10% of global transplantation practices The phenomenon has been increasing since the mid-1990's, coinciding with greater acceptance of the therapeutic benefits of transplantation and with progress in the efficacy of the medicines - immuno-suppressants - used to prevent the body
Latent tuberculosis infection - World Health Organization (WHO) haematological transplant and patients with silicosis should be systematically tested and treated for LTBI (Strong recommendation, low–very low-quality evidence Updated recommendation) In countries with a low TB incidence, systematic testing for and treatment of LTBI may be considered for
Framework for establishing integrated kidney care programs in low- and . . . transplant can be unreasonably high in settings where pro-grams are new and or low numbers of transplants are per-formed One option for countries in this position could be to send patients who have a living donor abroad for the trans-plant procedure, with postoperative and chronic follow-up done locally This option will require development of
Legionellosis - World Health Organization (WHO) The most susceptible hosts are immuno-compromised patients, including organ transplant recipients and cancer patients and those receiving corticosteroid treatment Delay in diagnosis and administration of appropriate antibiotic treatment, increasing age and presence of co-existing diseases are predictors of death from Legionnaires’ disease