Facts and Research:
Organ & Tissue Donation and Transplant Facts:
- Organ & Tissue Donation
- Organ & Tissue Transplantation
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Research Resources
Organ & Tissue Donations From The Executed:
- G.A.V.E's e-Book on prisoner Organ & Tissue donation (click here)
- Death row organ & Tissue donations - comprehensive collection of resources and opinion concerning donations from executed prisoners. - Written by Eric Meslin, Director of Indiana University Center for Bioethics
- Death row prisoners as organ & tissue donors - collection of views concerning proposals to accept organ & tissue donated by executed prisoners. Includes essays on various related topics. - Written by James Park, Existentialist Philosopher
- AMA Capital Punishment Guidelines (Opinion 2.06) - permitting organ donations from the executed
- Prescription: Medicine - The Goodness of Planned Death - book by Jack Kevorkian
Living Organ & Tissue Donations From Prisoners
- Mississippi Governor pardons sisters under the condition that one donates a kidney to the other
- Maricopa County begins a campaign to sign up inmates as organ & tissue donors
- Articles written by G.A.V.E.'s founder
-Prisoner Organ Donations? - a consideration of prison inmates vs. the rest of society
-High Risk? - comparison of inmates vs. other high risk groups
-Prisoner Consent? - can prisoners give appropriate consent to donate organs & tissue?
Organ & Tissue Donations from Gay Men & Bisexuals:
- Feds Reviewing Policy Banning Gay Men From Donating Blood
- The restrictions on gay male blood donors put lives at risk
- Ban may be eased for gay male blood donors
- A Push for Organ Donation By HIV-Positive Patients
- Should the ban on HIV-positive organ transplants be lifted
- Surgeons Seek Repeal of Transplant Ban Between HIV-Positive People
- Gay Men Banned From Donating Vital Organs
- Mexico Lifting Gay Blood Donation Ban
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Social Networking:
Organ & Tissue Transplantation Sites:
Social Networking:
- Facebook: G.A.V.E. Facebook page
- Facebook: Prisoner Organ & Tissue Donation
- twitter.com/GiveandLetLive - Twitter account for Give and Let Live
- donatelife-organdonation.blogspot.com - Organ and Tissue Donation Blog
- G.A.V.E. Twitter: https://twitter.com/GAVE_Life
Organ & Tissue Transplantation Sites:
- unos.org - United Network for Organ & Tissue Sharing
- organdonor.gov - US Government information on organ and tissue donation
- matchingdonors.com - Sign up to be a living donor
- optn.transplant.hrsa.gov - Organ and Tissue Procurement & Transplantation Network
- ustransplant.org - Fast Facts
- aopo.org - Transplant Hospitals
- optn.transplant.hrsa.gov - The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network
- leukemia.org - Leukemia Society of America
- kidney.org - National Kidney Foundation
Donor Registry & Info:
- anatomicgift.com
- matchingdonors.com - Find Recipients In Your Area
- getswabbed.org - Bone Marrow Registry
- transplantliving.org
Prisoner Advocacy, Support, Blogs:
hcvinprison.org - Hep C Prison Support Project
fairshake.net - Reentry Resource Center
theinnervoice84.wordpress.com - Prisoner Blog
hcvinprison.org - Hep C Prison Support Project
fairshake.net - Reentry Resource Center
theinnervoice84.wordpress.com - Prisoner Blog
Gay & Bisexual Advocacy Sites:
