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Clinton Administration Launches National Organ and Tissue Donation Initiative

At a special ceremony at the White House on Monday, December 15, 1997, Vice President Al Gore and Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala launched a new initiative directed at reducing the number of Americans who die each year while waiting for an organ transplant.
To view the DHHS press release click here

This initiative is targeted towards:

• Creating a broad national partnership of public, private, and volunteer organizations to encourage Americans to agree to organ and tissue donation. The partnership will emphasize the need to share personal decisions on organ donation with one's family.
• Working with health care providers, consumers and physicians to ensure that deaths are reported to organ procurement organizations whenever there is a potential for donation.
• Learning more about what works to bring about donation, through research and evaluation, including an HHS conference on best practices next spring.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has also launched a new web site as a part of the National Organ and Tissue Donation Initiative.

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