INCUCAI - National Ministry of Health

This National Institute is the organization which gives impulse, coordinates and rules the activities of organ, tissue and cell donation and transplantation in Argentina. Its actions are regulated by Law 24.193.

OBJECTIVES

• To make up and update the waiting lists of potential receptors.
• To coordinate organ and tissue distribution for transplant.
• To determine the procedures for maintenance of possible donors and for the transportation of organs.
• To dictate norms for the validation of the establishments, and of the professionals involved in this practice.
• To carry out the follow-up of transplanted patients with statistical objectives.
• To give advice to the National Executive Power concerning massive campaigns.
• To have the following records: People who express their opposition to donation, people who express their agreement with it, records of last will testimonies, destination of ablated organs.
• To record the data of potential Mother Cell donors and the information of the hystocompatibility studies which are carried out in the licensed laboratories.
• To exchange information with countries which have Mother Cell Registries to be able to assist those patients who require it.

AAPROTT – Argentine Association of Organ and Tissue Procurement for Transplantation

Scientific society created in November 1998 with the objective of dealing with the scientific aspects related to organ and tissue procurement for transplantation.

It is composed of professional people and agents of the health care system who work in organ procurement for transplantation.

MAIN ACTIVITIES

• To develop activities for the analysis, understanding and knowledge of the practice.
• To stimulate research and the production of scientific papers.
• To encourage the exchange of relations and joint actions with Scientific Societies, organizations of the Southern Cone and Latin America.
• To provide knowledge and debate on procurement models promoting participation in forums.
• To program and to carry out plans for the training and formation of Human Resources.

Iberoamerican Society of Transplant Coordinators

The Latin American transplant coordinators, who met in the Dominican Republic on June 18, 2001, during the XVI Latin American Congress on Transplantation, decided to form, together with the other transplant coordinators present at the Congress, and with the support of the transplant coordinators from Spain, the PUNTA CANA GROUP. This name was in honor to the site where the Congress was held.

This group has a registry of the donation and transplantation activities of the member countries which can be consulted in the web page: www.grupopuntacana.org

The development of this group resulted in the formation of the Iberoamerican Society of transplant coordinators, created in the city of Havana, Cuba, in May 2007, where their first Scientific Congress took place.

At present it is headed by Dr. Raúl Mizraji, from Uruguay, and it has an active participation from the transplant coordinators of Latin America and Spain.

Argentine Transplantation Society

MISSION

Promoting Science, Assistance and Ethics at the Service of Transplantation

OBJECTIVES

• To contribute with the improvement of medicine in the field of transplantation.
• To promote the study, research, and diffusion of topics related to this discipline.
• To publish the achievements of the society.
• To organize scientific meetings in the field of transplantation.
• To represent the interests of transplantation in government offices dealing with the study and treatment of different transplantation procedures.
• To promote the enactment of laws aiming to develop the advances achieved in the transplantation field.

Transplant Society of Latin American and the Caribbean

Their mission is to unify the Latin American and the Caribbean region in order to share knowledge, research projects and experiences, gathering professionals related to organ transplantation activities.

Aims and goals:

• To contribute to enhance and spread knowledge
• To have democratic representation of all Latin American Countries
• To help in the development of programs
• To help optimize results in the region
• To promote ethical regulations in transplantation activity and universal laws
• To create teams for collaborative studies, and share education and research.
• To develop guidelines in order to share organs and tissue for transplantation
• To spread information of the activity by publishing in international literature.
• To develop a Latin American Registry of Transplantation