Organ Trafficking
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[edit] Market Data and Information
According to Reuters, " Commercial living donors, mainly poor and vulnerable individuals in need of money, are thought to supply 10 percent of the world's transplanted kidneys.[1]
The World Health Organization and Reuters produced a factsheet stating the top five locations where organ trafficking is prevalent.[2] The countries are as follows:
1. China
2. Pakistan
3. Egypt
4. Colombia
5. Philippines
[edit] Market Demand
According to The Economist, "In America, the average waiting time for a kidney is now five years, up from less than a year in the 1980s. In Britain, there are around 6,000 people who need a transplant - and less than 2,000 such operation take place each year."[3]
According to Dr. Nancy Scheper-Hughes of Organs Watch,the biggest consumers of illegally traded organs are the Americans and the Japanese.[4]
[edit] Prices
Published news articles have reported of individuals paying between $100,000 to $150,000 for a trafficked kidney.[5]
In Canada, as many as 50 people are believed to have paid as much as $75,000 for a kidney transplant in China. The organs are believed to have been culled from executed Chinese prisoners.[6]
Listed below is the prices paid to the donor for a trafficked kidney based on location.[7]
| Location | Price to Kidney Donor |
|---|---|
| Brazil | $6,000 |
| India | $1,000 |
| Iraq | $500 |
| Philippines | $2,000 |
| Israel | $20,000 |
| Turkey | $5,000 |
| United States | $30.000 - $40,000 |
In Moldova, brokers are paid $100 or $200 for each person they recruit to sell their kidneys.[8] Organ sellers in Moldova receive between $2,500 to $3,000, with recipients paying between $100,000 to $250,000.[9]
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[edit] Sources
- ↑ Reuters, " FACTBOX: The who, what, where, and why of organ trafficking," Reuters.com, August 6, 2007.
- ↑ Reuters, "FACTBOX: Five Organ Trafficking hotspots," Reuters.com, August 6, 2007.
- ↑ " Organ Transplants: Your part or mine?," The Economist, November 18, 2006. pg. 60.
- ↑ Leslie Ferenc, "'Living Cadavers" forced by poverty to sell organs," Toronto Star, February 4, 2008,(accessed: February 5, 2008).
- ↑ Abraham McLaughlin, Ilene R. Prusher, and Andrew Downie, "What is a kidney worth?" ,Christian Science Monitor, June 9, 2004,(last accessed: January 19, 2006), and Larry Rohther, "Tracking the Sale of a Kidney on a Path of Poverty and Hope" , New York Times, May 23, 2004.
- ↑ Tom Blackwell,p=1 "Canadians buy organs culled in executions," National Post, May 6, 2006,(accessed: May 19, 2006).
- ↑ Abraham McLaughlin, Ilene R. Prusher, and Andrew Downie, " What is a kidney worth?" ,Christian Science Monitor, June 9, 2004, and Tom Heneghan, "Calls for kidney market as transplant demand soars," Reuters, April 3, 2007.
- ↑ Peter Baker, "In Struggling Moldova, Desperation Drives Decisions," Washington Post, November 7, 2002,(accessed: March 13, 2007).
- ↑ Carl Kovac, "Kidney trafficking is " big business,"says Council of Europe," British Medical Journal, August 2, 2003,(accessed: March 13, 2007).
