The Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth (CW) Games present a unique opportunity to showcase organ and tissue donation and transplantation activities of Commonwealth nations towards the noble cause of saving lives.

Through the sharing of knowledge and expertise, we will increase ethical organ and tissue donation and transplantation, regardless of transplant infrastructure, for the benefit of all Commonwealth citizens. We would empower health professionals to achieve a step towards equality for 2.3 billion citizens of CW countries, approximately one third of the world population.

The Commonwealth Tribute to Life project was formally launched on March 14th, 2022, bringing together regional coordinators, supporting organisations, and the global community for organ donation and transplantation.

A series of webinars were conducted on topics wide ranging to achieve the educational ambitions of the project to promote organ and tissue donation. The webinars shall be accessed from:

https://www.odt.nhs.uk/odt-structures-and-standards/clinical-leadership/commonwealth-tribute-to-life-project/webinars/      

• Donation: Changing donation culture
• Transplantation: Starting a sustainable transplant program
• Promotion: National campaigns
• Tissues: Corneal donation and transplantation
• Transplantation: Travails of setting up a liver transplant programme
• Donation: Death determination
• Promotion: Regionally focussed campaigns
• Transplantation: Living kidney donation
• Tissues: Skin banking
• Donation: Donor coordinator role of donation nurses
• Transplantation: Transplant immunology laboratories
• Promotion: Honouring deceased donors
• Promotion: Community engagement
• Donation: Opt-out legislation
• Transplant Sport
• Donation Education
• Transplant Registries
• Preventing Unethical Transplantation
• Donation Physicians and Clinical Leads

Two Nation Focus: The national organ donation and transplantation system in Singapore and  Sri Lanka.