COFS Facilitates Key Actors Meetings in Egypt December 2006

COFS, in collaboration with partner groups the Association for Health and Environmental Development (AHED) and the People's Health Movement (PHM), conducted the first of a series of meetings with key actors in Cairo in order to discuss creating alternatives for organ supply sources in Egypt that do not rely on commercial living donors.  Participants in this first meeting primarily consisted of medical professionals including key urologists and nephrologists involvedin organ transplants in Egypt.  Referring to WHO'sguidelines as well as the recent regional consensus statement of the Kuwait Document, the group formulated steps to advance alternative options for organ supply sources within the Egyptian legal and medical systems.