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Mexico&#44; from 2-4 September 2010&#46; During the event&#44; the coordinators analysed opinions and agreed upon proposals at each of the four round tables&#46; Once each group had concluded their discussions&#44; all of the Forum participants attended a plenary session in which the results and proposals for each matter were presented and consensus reached&#46; A draft document&#44; including points of reflection&#44; analysis criteria and action guidelines&#44; was then produced and was sent to all of the participants so that they could evaluate it and provide their final comments&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">&#160;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">Four topics were chosen for discussion during the First Bioethics and Transplant Forum&#58;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">&#160;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">1&#46; Living donor&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">&#160;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">2&#46; Organ trading and transplant tourism&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">&#160;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">3&#46; The state role in legislation&#44; transplant distribution and coverage&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">&#160;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">4&#46; Access to and quality of immunosuppression&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara"><span class="elsevierStyleBold">&#160;</span></p><p class="elsevierStylePara"><span class="elsevierStyleBold">GENERAL PRINCIPLES RECOMMENDED</span></p><p class="elsevierStylePara">&#160;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">The main bioethics fundamentals that must be considered are dignity and beneficence&#44; integrity and nonmaleficence&#44; precaution and&#47;or vulnerability&#44; autonomy and responsibility&#44; distributive and local justice&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">&#160;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">Bioethics&#44; as a science and an art&#44; is continuously evolving&#46; Therefore&#44; new principles have been formulated to clarify the conflicts that imply progress in life sciences&#44; as well as reintroducing others&#46; These first principles of good will&#44; nonmaleficence&#44; autonomy and justice were formulated in an English-speaking context&#44; but new contributions in the field of human know-how are therefore necessary in our environment&#44; given that bioethics have globalised&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">&#160;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">The term <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Human Dignity </span>means that the person has worth but not a price&#44; i&#46;e&#46; he or she is not on object of gain <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Principle of beneficence</span>&#58; in this context it is understood as acting on the best interest of the donor and recipient&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">&#160;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">We understand <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">integrity and nonmaleficence </span>as being the patient&#8217;s right to preserving his or her functional unit&#44; and <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">precaution and&#47;or vulnerability</span> represent the threat to the fragility of a given person due to biological&#44; 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have been used in health services to explain distributive justice&#46; A situation is considered fair when a person receives the care to which he or she has right&#46; Injustice emerges when an individual is deprived of the care that he or she should receive due to his or her need or social conditioning&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">&#160;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">Distributive justice seeks to supervise the methods employed to successfully assign a replacement therapy&#44; such as transplantation&#44; with the aim of avoiding discriminatory effects&#46;<span class="elsevierStyleSup">37-39</span></p><p class="elsevierStylePara">&#160;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">The Aguascalientes Document also considers important the definitions of <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">solidarity </span>and<span class="elsevierStyleItalic"> subsidisation</span>&#58;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara"><span class="elsevierStyleBold">&#160;</span></p><p class="elsevierStylePara"><span class="elsevierStyleBold">Solidarity</span></p><p class="elsevierStylePara">&#160;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">If every human being has the right to find what was needed for his&#47;her growth and development&#44; 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The patient must be given the information in their mother tongue or the regional dialect&#44; providing the patient with translation or interpreting services if necessary&#46; The written document granting authorisation shall be signed by the potential donor&#44; and if it is not provided in his or her mother tongue&#44; it shall be signed by the translator and at least two civil servants from the institution&#44; testifying that information that has been consented to in writing is the same as that which appears in the document&#46; It is necessary to take into consideration the person&#8217;s education and social background with the aim of understanding whether he or she has completely understood the information given both verbally and in writing&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">&#160;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">The Societies and law-makers in each country should use strategies that produce national laws based on international law models&#44; so as to achieve and maintain optimum results and protect recipients&#8217; and donors&#8217; rights&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara"><span class="elsevierStyleBold">&#160;</span></p><p class="elsevierStylePara"><span class="elsevierStyleBold">LIVING DONOR</span></p><p class="elsevierStylePara">&#160;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">The evaluation of a potential donor should only be limited to certain bio-psychological aspects&#46; However&#44; it is difficult to be able to ensure that the individual is not part of other underlying environmental circumstances&#44; which may be capable of influencing his or her final decision&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">&#160;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">The kidney donor may be subject to risks&#44; both during and after the surgical procedure&#44; given that he or she will have to live with a single kidney&#46; In fact&#44; many people considered as good candidates for kidney donation are found to be at the limit of current criteria&#44; concerning age&#44; weight&#44; blood pressure&#44; and could be at risk in the short- or long-term&#46; Similar situations can arise for living donors of other organs &#40;e&#46;g&#46; liver&#41;&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">&#160;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">It is therefore considered to be the responsibility of each transplant programme to establish a system ensuring that the donor undergoes detailed assessment to guarantee minimal additional risks&#46; This task would ideally be performed by an independent group of transplant experts who assess the donor at every stage of the procedure&#58; pre-surgical assessment&#44; surgery&#59; immediate post-operative care&#59; and long-term treatment to monitor this person&#8217;s overall health&#46; It is essential for there to be an interdisciplinary transplant committee which helps in decision making&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">&#160;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">Nonmaleficence should be a priority over other bioethical principles&#44; so as to protect donors with additional risks&#44; even when the donor wishes to practice his or her autonomy&#44; insisting on donating&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">&#160;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara"><span class="elsevierStyleBold">DEFINITIONS</span></p><p class="elsevierStylePara"><span class="elsevierStyleBold">&#160;</span></p><p class="elsevierStylePara"><span class="elsevierStyleBold">1&#46; Blood-related living donor&#46;</span> Genetically-related donor with first&#44; second&#44; third or fourth degree of consanguinity with the recipient &#40;father&#44; mother&#44; grandparents&#44; aunties and uncles&#44; and cousins&#41;&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">&#160;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara"><span class="elsevierStyleBold">2&#46; Non-blood related living donor&#46;</span></p><p class="elsevierStylePara"><span class="elsevierStyleBold"><span class="elsevierStyleItalic">&#160;</span></span></p><p class="elsevierStylePara"><span class="elsevierStyleItalic">A&#46;</span><span class="elsevierStyleItalic"> Emotionally-related living donor&#46;</span> Donors that are not blood- or genetically-related&#44; 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Unethical transplant practices have been recognised which promote inequality and human explotation&#46;<span class="elsevierStyleSup">40</span> These unethical practices are based upon false premises such as &#8220;profit&#8221; and &#8220;opportunity&#8221; that a person can obtain to &#8220;improve&#8221; his or her financial situation&#46; In the same manner&#44; &#8220;autonomy&#8221; is used to justify the right that these people have to sell their organs&#46; However&#44; this is nothing more than a way of hiding an &#8220;illegal trade&#8221; in which poor people in need of money are not those that benefit from organ trading&#58; it is the intermediates that make the profit&#46; It is clear that the poor people are those who are at risk from participating in this type of procedure&#44; given their vulnerability&#46; Latin America has had to take necessary measures to protect the vulnerable population from new forms of human exploitation&#44; such organ trading and trafficking&#44; given the social gap between rich and poor in our region&#44; the high poverty rates&#44; and low level of education&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">&#160;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">The Aguascalientes Document endorses the following definitions from the Declaration of Istanbul<span class="elsevierStyleSup">24</span>&#58;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara"><span class="elsevierStyleBold"><span class="elsevierStyleItalic">&#160;</span></span></p><p class="elsevierStylePara"><span class="elsevierStyleBold"><span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Organ trafficking </span></span><span class="elsevierStyleItalic">is the recruitment&#44; transport&#44; transfer&#44; harboring or receipt of living or deceased persons or their organs by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion&#44; of abduction&#44; of fraud&#44; of deception&#44; of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability&#44; or of the giving to&#44; or the receiving by&#44; a third party of payments or benefits to achieve the transfer of control over the potential donor for the purpose of exploitation by the removal of organs for transplantation&#46;</span></p><p class="elsevierStylePara"><span class="elsevierStyleBold"><span class="elsevierStyleItalic">&#160;</span></span></p><p class="elsevierStylePara"><span class="elsevierStyleBold"><span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Transplant commercialism </span></span><span class="elsevierStyleItalic">is a policy or practice in which an organ is treated as a commodity&#44; 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It opposes any mechanism that disguises organ trading and the functioning of any type of organisation that ascertains that organs are tradable articles&#46; For example&#44; this includes the regulated market&#44; free sale of organs&#44; or payment to donors beyond the costs for assessments&#44; surgical procedure&#44; follow-up and complications after donating&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara"><span class="elsevierStyleBold">&#160;</span></p><p class="elsevierStylePara"><span class="elsevierStyleBold">THE STATE ROLE IN LEGISLATION&#44; TRANSPLANT DISTRIBUTION AND COVERAGE</span></p><p class="elsevierStylePara">&#160;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">On the understanding that our States are responsible for the welfare of the citizens and aim to promote common good&#44; their role must be mentioned with regard to authority&#44; funding&#44; safeguarding&#44; availability&#44; control and surveillance of any activity carried out in their own country associated with human organ&#44; tissue and cell transplantation&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">&#160;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">The growing demand for donated human biological materials to tackle the situation of thousands of our citizens&#44; requires organised development of donation and transplant systems&#44; and specific policies set within an ethical and legal context which considers the common good and universal access&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">&#160;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">To a lesser or greater extent&#44; there is a strong and growing unbalance between supply and demand of organs for transplantation in each of our countries&#46; Furthermore&#44; there is a fragmentation in health care and partial or restricted access to transplantation as an alternative therapy in wide groups of the Latin American and the Caribbean population&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">&#160;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">Even though the rate of deceased donors in many of our countries has grown extensively&#44; at present other internationally-used alternatives are analysed which need strict ethical&#44; legal&#44; and citizen control if they are to be considered appropriate&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">&#160;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">The only way to face this situation is for the different components of our society to take responsibility and a committed attitude&#44; especially those that hold greater political&#44; ethical-legal&#44; health and economic power&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">&#160;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">In this context&#44; the public society holds a very special role&#44; having a more active and organised attitude towards defending its rights&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">&#160;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">The political decision giving impetus to these systems has clear objectives&#44; such as guaranteeing the right to transplantation&#44; increasing the number of transplants&#44; reducing waiting lists and improving transplant results&#46; This should be developed by means of donation and transplant policies&#44; considering the problems associated with access and equity&#44; coverage&#44; and the integrity in health care&#46;<span class="elsevierStyleSup">41&#44;42</span> For these measures to be applied correctly&#44; the States must guarantee universal coverage of health services to all individuals in need of transplantation&#46; Each State&#8217;s organisational characteristics must meet &#8220;correct&#8221; ethical guidelines&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">&#160;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">In those countries in which donation or transplantation do not exist&#44; the authorities should make every effort to develop systems that attend to the needs of the population with the objective of achieving self-sufficiency&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">&#160;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">In all cases&#44; all information related to access to current transplant programmes&#44; patient and graft survival rates&#44; availability&#44; coverage levels and allocation criteria&#44; should be made available&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">&#160;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">Access to information by the different actors&#44; including patients&#44; ensures transparency in allocation and forces results to be accounted for&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara"><span class="elsevierStyleBold">&#160;</span></p><p class="elsevierStylePara"><span class="elsevierStyleBold">ACCESS TO AND QUALITY OF IMMUNOSUPPRESSION</span></p><p class="elsevierStylePara">&#160;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">The objective is to guarantee the health of the patients by using drugs that have proven quality and efficacy by means of a process defined and approved by a scientific and academic institution&#46;<span class="elsevierStyleSup">43 </span>This process does not however approve or disapprove the use of generic drugs&#44; but does require that they meet the conditions established&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">&#160;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">Transplant coverage should be understood as the need to implement health care strategies to ensure access&#44; quality&#44; transparency&#44; equity and efficacy in patient care&#44; ensuring that patients are quickly registered onto waiting lists&#44; being on them for as short as possible&#44; and the possibility of receiving a transplant with the aim of the patient being fully reincorporated into society&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">&#160;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">Health care professionals must be ethically committed to the transplantation&#44; not only with the patient&#44; but also with the community enabling donation to be a common&#44; yet scarce good&#44; further implying their responsibility for the patient that continues on the waiting list&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">&#160;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">The State must ensure that the doctor-patient relationship remains within the ethical framework which assumes the dignity and autonomy of the individual&#46; Any change or regulation that may modify this balance may affect the patient&#8217;s psycho-physical welfare&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">&#160;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">Problems associated with incorporating generic immunosuppressive drugs on the market are a current issue&#46; It is a universal debate&#44; and to date&#44; there is not enough information in the literature concerning the therapeutic safety of generic immunosuppressive drugs&#44; and there is even less on the results of their interchangeability&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">&#160;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">The transplant doctor must supervise the quality of the immunosuppressive drug that the patient receives&#44; being an ethical obligation&#46; As a result&#44; adherence to the prescription should also be achieved&#44; and the patient must be provided with all information to ensure that he or she is able to exercise his or her autonomy and freely make a decision&#46; Any change in immunosuppressive treatment should be authorised by the patient by means of signing a legally accepted informed consent&#46; 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Ethical challenges in transplant practice in Latin America: the Aguascalientes Document
Desafíos éticos en la práctica de trasplantes en América Latina: Documento de Aguascalientes
Documento de Aguascalientes, A.. Baquerob, J.. Alberúc
b Instituto Dominicano de Trasplantes, Santo Domingo, República Dominicana,
c Jefe del Departamento de Trasplantes. Coordinadora general, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Ciudad de México, México,
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Organ transplantation has become an ever-increasingly important part of the therapeutic armament for a large number of diseases&#44; which were previously considered terminal&#46; This creates the need to ensure that patients have correct and fair access to medical assistance and to medical treatments which entail highly elevated costs&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">&#160;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">2&#46; Until now&#44; deceased-donor transplants have always been a scarce resource&#46; Given the growing number of patients that require a transplant&#44; it is absolutely essential to ensure equity in access to this resource&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">&#160;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">3&#46; Living donors are not an exception&#46; Given the growing demand for transplant services&#44; there is always the possibility that transplant programmes become more permissive in accepting potential living donors&#44; even when the donor&#8217;s safety may be put at risk&#46; 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acknowledging its qualities and proposing solutions for its shortcomings&#44; which are very much associated with the correct application of fundamental ethical principles&#46; It is also essential to analyse the way in which health authorities from these countries attend to the permanent and universal care coverage required by transplant recipients&#44; including immunosuppressive therapy and its quality&#44; as well as the commitment implied in the short- and long-term monitoring of living donors&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">&#160;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">With the aim of producing a sufficiently detailed and useful document&#44; transplant doctors and bioethics specialists in Latin America and the Caribbean were convened to participate in developing the Forum and were assigned different tasks&#46; They examined in depth the practices that currently prevail in our countries&#44; detecting the weaknesses and proposing solutions which were later assessed and discussed in work groups throughout the first Bioethics and Transplant Forum held in Aguascalientes&#44; Mexico&#44; from 2-4 September 2010&#46; During the event&#44; the coordinators analysed opinions and agreed upon proposals at each of the four round tables&#46; Once each group had concluded their discussions&#44; all of the Forum participants attended a plenary session in which the results and proposals for each matter were presented and consensus reached&#46; A draft document&#44; including points of reflection&#44; analysis criteria and action guidelines&#44; was then produced and was sent to all of the participants so that they could evaluate it and provide their final comments&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">&#160;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">Four topics were chosen for discussion during the First Bioethics and Transplant Forum&#58;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">&#160;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">1&#46; Living donor&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">&#160;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">2&#46; Organ trading and transplant tourism&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">&#160;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">3&#46; The state role in legislation&#44; transplant distribution and coverage&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">&#160;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">4&#46; Access to and quality of immunosuppression&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara"><span class="elsevierStyleBold">&#160;</span></p><p class="elsevierStylePara"><span class="elsevierStyleBold">GENERAL PRINCIPLES RECOMMENDED</span></p><p class="elsevierStylePara">&#160;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">The main bioethics fundamentals that must be considered are dignity and beneficence&#44; integrity and nonmaleficence&#44; precaution and&#47;or vulnerability&#44; autonomy and responsibility&#44; distributive and local justice&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">&#160;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">Bioethics&#44; as a science and an art&#44; is continuously evolving&#46; Therefore&#44; new principles have been formulated to clarify the conflicts that imply progress in life sciences&#44; as well as reintroducing others&#46; These first principles of good will&#44; nonmaleficence&#44; autonomy and justice were formulated in an English-speaking context&#44; but new contributions in the field of human know-how are therefore necessary in our environment&#44; given that bioethics have globalised&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">&#160;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">The term <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Human Dignity </span>means that the person has worth but not a price&#44; i&#46;e&#46; he or she is not on object of gain <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Principle of beneficence</span>&#58; in this context it is understood as acting on the best interest of the donor and recipient&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">&#160;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">We understand <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">integrity and nonmaleficence </span>as being the patient&#8217;s right to preserving his or her functional unit&#44; and <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">precaution and&#47;or vulnerability</span> represent the threat to the fragility of a given person due to biological&#44; 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have been used in health services to explain distributive justice&#46; A situation is considered fair when a person receives the care to which he or she has right&#46; Injustice emerges when an individual is deprived of the care that he or she should receive due to his or her need or social conditioning&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">&#160;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">Distributive justice seeks to supervise the methods employed to successfully assign a replacement therapy&#44; such as transplantation&#44; with the aim of avoiding discriminatory effects&#46;<span class="elsevierStyleSup">37-39</span></p><p class="elsevierStylePara">&#160;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">The Aguascalientes Document also considers important the definitions of <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">solidarity </span>and<span class="elsevierStyleItalic"> subsidisation</span>&#58;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara"><span class="elsevierStyleBold">&#160;</span></p><p class="elsevierStylePara"><span class="elsevierStyleBold">Solidarity</span></p><p class="elsevierStylePara">&#160;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">If every human being has the right to find what was needed for his&#47;her growth and development&#44; 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The patient must be given the information in their mother tongue or the regional dialect&#44; providing the patient with translation or interpreting services if necessary&#46; The written document granting authorisation shall be signed by the potential donor&#44; and if it is not provided in his or her mother tongue&#44; it shall be signed by the translator and at least two civil servants from the institution&#44; testifying that information that has been consented to in writing is the same as that which appears in the document&#46; It is necessary to take into consideration the person&#8217;s education and social background with the aim of understanding whether he or she has completely understood the information given both verbally and in writing&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">&#160;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">The Societies and law-makers in each country should use strategies that produce national laws based on international law models&#44; so as to achieve and maintain optimum results and protect recipients&#8217; 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Unethical transplant practices have been recognised which promote inequality and human explotation&#46;<span class="elsevierStyleSup">40</span> These unethical practices are based upon false premises such as &#8220;profit&#8221; and &#8220;opportunity&#8221; that a person can obtain to &#8220;improve&#8221; his or her financial situation&#46; In the same manner&#44; &#8220;autonomy&#8221; is used to justify the right that these people have to sell their organs&#46; However&#44; this is nothing more than a way of hiding an &#8220;illegal trade&#8221; in which poor people in need of money are not those that benefit from organ trading&#58; it is the intermediates that make the profit&#46; It is clear that the poor people are those who are at risk from participating in this type of procedure&#44; given their vulnerability&#46; Latin America has had to take necessary measures to protect the vulnerable population from new forms of human exploitation&#44; such organ trading and trafficking&#44; given the social gap between rich and poor in our region&#44; the high poverty rates&#44; and low level of education&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">&#160;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">The Aguascalientes Document endorses the following definitions from the Declaration of Istanbul<span class="elsevierStyleSup">24</span>&#58;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara"><span class="elsevierStyleBold"><span class="elsevierStyleItalic">&#160;</span></span></p><p class="elsevierStylePara"><span class="elsevierStyleBold"><span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Organ trafficking </span></span><span class="elsevierStyleItalic">is the recruitment&#44; transport&#44; transfer&#44; harboring or receipt of living or deceased persons or their organs by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion&#44; of abduction&#44; of fraud&#44; of deception&#44; of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability&#44; or of the giving to&#44; or the receiving by&#44; a third party of payments or benefits to achieve the transfer of control over the potential donor for the purpose of exploitation by the removal of organs for transplantation&#46;</span></p><p class="elsevierStylePara"><span class="elsevierStyleBold"><span class="elsevierStyleItalic">&#160;</span></span></p><p class="elsevierStylePara"><span class="elsevierStyleBold"><span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Transplant commercialism </span></span><span class="elsevierStyleItalic">is a policy or practice in which an organ is treated as a commodity&#44; 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It opposes any mechanism that disguises organ trading and the functioning of any type of organisation that ascertains that organs are tradable articles&#46; For example&#44; this includes the regulated market&#44; free sale of organs&#44; or payment to donors beyond the costs for assessments&#44; surgical procedure&#44; follow-up and complications after donating&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara"><span class="elsevierStyleBold">&#160;</span></p><p class="elsevierStylePara"><span class="elsevierStyleBold">THE STATE ROLE IN LEGISLATION&#44; TRANSPLANT DISTRIBUTION AND COVERAGE</span></p><p class="elsevierStylePara">&#160;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">On the understanding that our States are responsible for the welfare of the citizens and aim to promote common good&#44; their role must be mentioned with regard to authority&#44; funding&#44; safeguarding&#44; availability&#44; control and surveillance of any activity carried out in their own country associated with human organ&#44; tissue and cell transplantation&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">&#160;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">The growing demand for donated human biological materials to tackle the situation of thousands of our citizens&#44; 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