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Organ Donations Save
Lives
by Maxine Session
August is Organ Donor
month. Texas Publishers Association, the
Black Press of Texas, launched an Organ
Donor Outreach Campaign across the state
of Texas to increase the number of
minorities who donate their organs.
When you pickup copies of the
publications in your area, please read
the articles. Four have been published.
Give It Up, Your Organs That Is
by Gordon Jackson; Increasing the
Number of Black Organ Donors by
Marian Jefferson; One family’s battle
with end stage renal disease by Marian
Jefferson; and African Americans
morelikely to require transplant, by
Tuala Williams.
Four years ago our family
lost a member whose circumstances could
have had a different outcome had he been
able to have a lung transplant. He
didn’t give up on the idea that he would
be rescued from the lung disease,
Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis by a lung
transplant, yet after a
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