In late March, the Kentucky State Legislature passed, and the Governor subsequently signed, a new law prohibiting for-profit eye banking in their commonwealth State.The Global Alliance of Eye Bank Associations (GAEBA) and its partner associations...
Coronavirus (COVID-2019) and Ocular Tissue Donation COVID-19 is an illness characterised by respiratory symptoms, including coughing, breathlessness, and fever, caused by the infection Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). Individuals at greatest risk of developing a severe infective response to...
pdf. version Coronavirus (COVID-2019) and Ocular Tissue Donation COVID-19 is an illness characterised by respiratory symptoms, including coughing, breathlessness, and fever, caused by the infection Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). Individuals at greatest risk of developing a severe infective response...
October 8th 2019: The World report offers clear proposals to address significant challenges in delivering eye care through existing health systems. It builds on the concerted efforts of the past thirty years to propose an...
The organ, eye and tissue donation system in the United States depends on the cooperation and shared expertise of many participants; hospitals, eye banks, tissue banks and organ procurement organizations. Each contributes to the process...
The Global Alliance of Eye Bank Associations (GAEBA) announces a long-term project to capture annual data on corneal transplants, corneal donations and tissue movement across countries – with other data sets potentially to follow. “Right now, we do...
MADRID, July 1, 2018 – The first new edition of the Declaration of Istanbul on Organ Trafficking and Transplant Tourism, a seminal document that has helped to guide ethical practice in organ donation and transplantation...
14th June 2018 - Barcelona: We are proud to announce the launch of The Barcelona Principles - An agreement on the use of human donated tissue for ocular transplantation, research, and future technologies, signed in the...
The new International Council of Ophthalmology (ICO) position Statement: Donation, Processing, Allocation, Advocacy, and Legislation Supporting Human Corneal Tissue for Ocular Transplant is now available. As an initiative of the ICO, in partnership with the Corneal Society and GAEBA, the...
The Medical Advisory Board met by conference call in an urgent session on February 1, 2016 to discuss a potentially life threatening adverse event. A recipient of a keratolimbal allograft developed a malignant melanoma in...
PERTH: Yesterday, Members of EBAANZ ratified Australia and New Zealand’s first regional Bioethics Framework concerning Human Tissue for Ocular Application, during their annual meeting held in conjunction with the Corneal Society, at the Perth Convention...
Monday 3rd November 2014 STATEMENT: GLOBAL EYE BANKS RESPONSE TO THE EBOLA OUTBREAK Due to the recent outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in West Africa over the past few months, members of the Global Alliance...
