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Organ theft is the act of taking a person's organs for transplantation or sale on the black market, without their explicit consent through means of being an organ donor or other forms of consent. Most cases of organ theft involve coercion, occurrences in wartime, or thefts within hospital settings. [ 1 ]
Organ trade (also known as the blood market or the red market) is the trading of human organs, tissues, or other body products, usually for transplantation. [1] [2] According to the World Health Organization (WHO), organ trade is a commercial transplantation where there is a profit, or transplantations that occur outside of national medical systems.
The UK Kidney Sharing Scheme connects donors who are unable to match with family members to people who can help them. Last year, more than 20 three-way organ swaps took place as part of the scheme ...
If the organ donor is human, most countries require that the donor be legally dead for consideration of organ transplantation (e.g. cardiac death or brain death). For some organs, a living donor can be the source of the organ. For example, living donors can donate one kidney or part of their liver to a well-matched recipient. [2]
From January 2023 to mid-March, more than 14,300 Black kidney transplant candidates had their wait times adjusted by an average of two years, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing.
"The kidney she received came at the cost of another’s life," said Alka Chandna, vice president of laboratory investigations cases at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, an advocacy group.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), illegal organ trade occurs when organs are removed from the body for the purpose of commercial transactions. [6] The illegal organ trade is growing, and a recent report by Global Financial Integrity estimates that globally it generates profits between $0.6 billion and $1.2 billion per year
“The kidney is one of the most complex organs,” explains Suzanne Watnick, MD, a Scholar in Residence at the American Society of Nephrology. “To replicate that is tough.” “To replicate ...