Showing posts with label Brazil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brazil. Show all posts
Thursday, October 10, 2024

Kidney exchange in Brazil, continued (with pictures)

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  In August I posted about a trip to Brazil  with  Mike Rees  where we traveled with  Dr. Gustavo Ferreira , the director of transplantation...
Monday, August 12, 2024

Kidney exchange in Brazil: prelude

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 Yesterday I flew home from a busy visit to Brazil, with Mike Rees and Dr. Gustavo Ferreira .   On Wednesday we all traveled to the capital...
Sunday, June 2, 2024

Kidney Exchange in Latin America and the Caribbean

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 Kidney exchange isn't yet thriving in Latin America, but the basic infrastructure is in place. It would make a lot of sense to jumpstar...
Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Stanford Impact Labs announces support for kidney exchange in Brazil, India, and the U.S.

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  Stanford Impact Labs has announced an investment designed to help the Alliance for Paired Kidney Donation (APKD) i ncrease access to kidne...
Monday, February 26, 2024

Prison gangs, in Latin America and in the U.S.

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 It's one thing to be able to capture and confine prisoners. When gangs are involved, it's quite another thing to control the prison...
Tuesday, November 21, 2023

Balance of violence: prison-based criminal cartels, the case of Brazil's PCC.

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The vexed relationship between banned markets and black markets is perhaps nowhere clearer than when prison based gangs of convicted drug de...
Tuesday, August 15, 2023

Affirmative action in Brazilian universities: guest post by Inácio Bó

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 Recent legislation in Brazil addresses university admissions with affirmative action that targets multiple characteristics that individuals...
Tuesday, June 6, 2023

Interview in the Brazil Journal

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 I was interviewed for the Brazil Journal by Giuliano Guandalini. The interview was conducted in English, but appears in Portuguese. We disc...
Wednesday, July 13, 2022

Kidney exchange debate in Brazil

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 A discussion of kidney exchange in Brazil began with this letter to the editor, describing how kidney exchange (aka kidney paired donation)...
Saturday, February 12, 2022

First kidney exchange in Brazil

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 A first kidney exchange in Brazil, at Universidade de São Paulo, Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina, São Paulo, SP, Brasil, is ...
Sunday, December 26, 2021

A call for kidney exchange in Brazil, in the Brazilian Journal of Nephrology

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  Here's a call to allow kidney exchange in Brazil, to address the shortage of kidney transplants there. Increasing transplantability in...
Tuesday, September 14, 2021

Market design (I talk to the entering Ph.D. class at Escola Nacional de Administração Pública)

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 Yesterday I gave what I think was the first lecture to the entering class of Ph.D. students at the Escola Nacional de Administração Pública...
Friday, December 14, 2018

Successful birth in Brazil to a woman who received a uterus transplanted from a deceased donor

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The Lancet reports the first known case of a live birth to a woman born without a uterus who received a transplanted uterus from a deceased...