Welcome to Transplant Links Community (TLC).
Since 2008 we have been training surgeons and doctors in low and middle income countries to perform living-donor kidney transplants, which enables a family member to save the life of their loved one by donating a kidney.
What better gift can there be?
TLC CEO Aimee Jewitt-Harris and
TLC founder and Director of Medical Activities Dr Jennie Jewitt-Harris
“I am so proud to be a Patron of TLC. Their extraordinary wonderful work means that patients with kidney failure worldwide have a new chance of life again.”
— Baroness Floella Benjamin DBE
Save
We assist transplant teams in LMICs in performing living-donor kidney transplants, where a healthy relative donates a kidney to save the life of their loved one.
Educate
We teach skills in kidney transplantation to the surgeons, doctors, nurses and hospital teams so that they are able to carry out these procedures unassisted.
Sustain
We work with hospital administration, social workers, transplant coordinators and government officials for as long as it takes to ensure that the programme is sustainable.
“We’re not the kind of charity that swoops in, does a few transplants and leaves again. This is about partnership; we’re in it for the long run.”
— Nick Inston, TLC Transplant Surgeon and Clinical Lead
“In countries like Ghana, typically a patient comes onto dialysis, their money starts to run down, eventually they spend the kids’ school fees on their dialysis, then they sell their house and then four years later they don’t survive. I’m not exaggerating. Transplantation would avoid this.”
— Dr Dwomoa Adu, Consultant Nephrologist at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Ghana
With a kidney transplant, a patient can return to work, to school, contribute to society and live a near-normal life, free of dialysis. People live better, longer lives with a transplant. This surgery is commonplace in developed countries and is a highly successful procedure. Many hospitals around the world have the facilities to perform this life changing and life saving procedure, they just lack the specific skills.
We have the skills, and it is our privilege to share them.
TLC: the catalyst for change
Transplant Links has been pleased to speak at a number of conferences including the European Society for Organ Transplantation, The South African Transplant Congress and The African Society for Organ Transplantation.
We have also published articles, posters and papers in the British Medical Journal, Kidney International, The Royal College of Surgeons of England Bulletin and WCN ISN World Congress Of Nephrology and written chapters for books, including most recently Optimizing Health Literacy for Improved Clinical Practices.
