Research Notes on Organ Transplants and Poverty
Illegal organ trafficking accounts for as much as 10 percent of all transplants worldwide, according to the World Health Organization.
Most of this trafficking are from donors living below the poverty line, 90 percent of the which agrees to donate only to ease their financial troubles.
Top Resources on Organ Transplants and Poverty
- Asia News: Oppressed by poverty, 3,000 Filipinos sell their organs
- International Humanist and Ethical Union: Intersecting Human Rights Crises: Organ Transplantation and Organ Trafficking
- Malaya: Organs for sale
- Hotscams.com: Organ Transplant Scams
- World Health Organization (WHO): The state of the international organ trade: a provisional picture based on integration of available information
- thestar.com: Living cadavers' forced by poverty to sell organs
- OneWorld South Asia: Asia’s black market of illegal organs
- MedIndia.com: India to Liberalize Organ Transplant Act and Launch Nationwide Awareness Campaign
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- Contributor: Martin Dela Cruz, RMT
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- Last update: Jul. 30, 2008
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