U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
More than 113,000 people are waiting for transplants, but the demand for organs far exceeds the supply. Living donation offers another choice for transplant candidates, and it extends the supply of organs.
Who can be a living donor
Parents, children, husbands, wives, friends, co-workers — even total strangers — can be living-donor candidate. Learn more
Another option: kidney paired donation
Sometimes a kidney transplant candidate has a willing living donor, but the donor is not a match. Kidney paired donation allows two (or more) recipients to trade donors so that each recipient can receive a kidney with a compatible blood type. Learn more
Information
- Find a living donor (PDF - 2.0 M; 7/2021)
- Member directory: find hospitals that perform living donor transplants