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The announced transplant reforms in China do not address the concerns of forcibly harvested organs from prisoners of conscience. While all countries with public organ donation systems see a significant gap between registered donors and the eventual number of donors—in the UK only about 1% of registered donors become eligible donors—, China reports numbers that are implausible. China states to have 200,000 registered donors; yet with a death rate of 7/1000 per year, only about 1,400 of the registered donors would pass away per year. If only 1% of those donors become eligible donors, then China would have an annual pool of 14 registered donors. Official numbers from China claim to have had more than 4,000 organ donors in 2016. The gap in the numbers presses again for the question: where do the organs come from? This question underlines the importance to keep investigating on prisoners of conscience as organ source.

Latest News & Statements

10/19/2016
DAFOH Rejects the Empty Rhetoric of Beijing’s Stage-Managed Conference on China’s Organ Donation
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: WASHINGTON, October 19, 2016 — There has been extensive Chinese media coverage of a recent Beijing conference on Chinese organ donation processes. The conference was reportedly held […]
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09/26/2016
International Day Against Forced Organ Harvesting
DAFOH announces the first International Day Against Forced Organ Harvesting on October 1, 2016, in order to commemorate the victims of state-sanctioned, forced organ harvesting. The day shall also mark a global call to the United […]
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03/28/2016
New Perspectives on China’s Transplant Numbers: Unethical Organ Procurement from Prisoners of Conscience
Research estimates that 100,000-200,000 Falun Gong practitioners in China have been subjected to forced organ harvesting since 2000 by DAFOH March 28, 2016 Abstract: Over the past two decades, China has […]
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02/09/2016
DAFOH Receives Nomination for 2016 Nobel Peace Prize
It is with great pleasure that we inform you that Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting has been honored with nomination for the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize for a decade of determination in raising awareness, […]
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01/05/2016
Call upon International Community to Stay Alert on China’s Organ Sourcing
After China’s announcement in Dec 2014 to end the organ harvesting from executed prisoners by Jan 2015, many international bodies started to believe that the organ procurement practice in China would change, […]
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09/24/2015
Press Release September 24, 2015
For Immediate Release: The One Question Xi Jinping Doesn’t Want to Answer on His First Visit to the US Washington, Sept. 24, 2015 — Will Xi Jinping end the ongoing forced organ harvesting of […]
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