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
Hepatitis E - World Health Organization (WHO) Every year there are an estimated 20 million hepatitis E infections, over 3 million symptomatic cases of hepatitis E, and 56 600 hepatitis E-related deaths
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
Essential Programme on Immunization The Essential Programme on Immunization aims to strengthen vaccine programmes, supply, and delivery, and ensure universal access to all relevant vaccines for all populations across the life course
Blood safety and availability Blood transfusion saves lives and improves health Providing safe and adequate blood should be an integral part of every country’s national health care policy and infrastructure
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) WHO cardiovascular diseases fact sheet providing key facts and information on risk factors, symptoms, rheumatic heart disease, treatment and prevention, WHO response