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Minority Statistics
Organ Donation among African Americans in Gift of Life Donor Program's service region How many are in need? African Americans represent 34.2 percent of people waiting for organ transplants in Gift of Life’s service region, which includes Delaware, the eastern half of Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey. Of the more than 1,827 African Americans waiting for transplants in the Gift of Life region, 91 percent are waiting for kidney transplants.
African Americans represent 26 percent of transplants performed in Gift of Life’s region to date. How many are in need? |
How long do they have to wait? | Of all individuals on the transplant waiting list, 33 percent of them are African Americans, as of 2007. |
Who's donating? | In Gift of Life’s region, African Americans represent 18 percent of deceased donors. |
Why is it important for African Americans to donate? | Transplant success rates increase when organs are matched between members of the same ethnic and racial group. |
Same question about Latinos? The majority of Latino patients are waiting for kidney transplants.
Research from focus groups held in Miami, New York and Chicago in 2001 indicated that the majority of the Spanish speaking Latino community is largely uninformed about the process of donation and transplantation.
The same research study indicated that the information known to the Latino community is generally inaccurate and preserves the many myths and barriers to increasing donation.
Latinos, like many other ethnic groups, have a mistrust of the medical system, specifically the process of transplantation, according to the research study.
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