A deliberative public engagement study on heritable human genome editing among South Africans: Study results.

This paper reports the results of a public engagement study on heritable human genome editing (HHGE) carried out in South Africa, which was conducted in accordance with a study protocol that was published in this journal in 2021. This study is novel as it is the first public engagement study on HHGE in Africa. It used a deliberative public engagement (DPE) methodology, entailing inter alia that measures were put in place to ensure that potential participants became informed about HHGE, and that deliberations between the participants were facilitated with the aim of seeking consensus.

This is my kidney, I should be able to do with it what I want: towards a legal framework for organ transplants in South Africa.

In 2010 illegal kidney transplants performed in South African hospitals were exposed. Living donors (actually sellers) from Brazil and Romania were flown into South Africa where a kidney was harvested from each and transplanted into Israeli patients. The media reports that followed indicated an outcry against the sale of human kidneys.

Commercialization of human organs for transplantation: a view from South Africa.

The Human Tissue Act 65 of 1983 regulates all aspects regarding organ transplants. This Act was last amended in 1989. Since then medical science has developed tremendously and to such an extent that organ transplants today are almost routine operations in many hospitals.