Why don't more African Americans become organ donors?
Donating organs is a demanding practice in today's life as new diseases, bacteria, and infections battle to damage organs by affecting their functional purposes.A total of 119,00 people are added to the national transplant list every ten minutes.The family of Thalya, a 13-year-old girl, who was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease is struggling to find a donor after her two-year journey.Even thought the recipient doesn't have anyone that is African American, it is recommended because it would be a more compatible match.During 2016, African Americans make 30 % of the overall organ donations waiting list even though they only make up 13% of the US population.They've faced the odds and started a social media campaign using #KidneyforThalya to shared inspirational stories of successful transplants as well as articles to informed people about organ donations.A familiar reason why African Americans don't usually donate is because they distrust the doctors, and they fear that their organs will be used as experiments.
The article was written by BBC news to inform the necessities of organ donors.Despite the of 2016, we could observe how cultural and historical events like the Tuskegee syphilis experiment in Alabama used to offer African Americans free medical care yet many were deceived to signed a long-term study experiment into the effects of syphilis, therefore many develop a distrust towards doctors. Looking through the chart represented in the article I could see the enormous gap between the donations of organs and the current waiting list.In my personal opinion, I will be willing to donate my organs if they are useful to save someone else's life, why keep them once I die?
You have a really nice synthesis. I don't think it is right that it is harder to get a donor if you are African American, and I hope that in the coming years that will change.
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