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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.
Rising numbers of teenagers are selling organs in Iran amid the country’s worst ever economic crisis as young donors' healthy organs fetch high prices for desperate families. As poverty has become more widespread in Iran over the past few years, advertisements to sell and donate other body organs are also more commen. [15]
Other countries, including Iran, continue to operate legal organ-selling markets, not only allowing citizens to sell organs but flying in donors from other countries such as Jordan.
Organ harvesting from live people is one of the most frequently discussed debate topic in organ transplantation. The World Health Organization argues that transplantation promote health, but the notion of “transplantation tourism” has the potential to violate human rights or exploit the poor, to have unintended health consequences, and to provide unequal access to services, all of which ...
Any organ market would have to be transparent and establish the same price for everybody to prevent bidding wars over rare commodities such as kidneys, which fetch about $100,000 in the black market.
While it’s illegal in the U.S. to sell organs for transplants, there is nothing to stop the sale of human remains for education or research. In this void, the national body trade has flourished ...
These conclusions are based on a combination of statistical analysis; interviews with former prisoners, medical authorities and public security agents; and circumstantial evidence, such as the large number of Falun Gong practitioners detained extrajudicially in China and the profits to be made from selling organs. [7] [6]
It is illegal to buy or sell organs such as hearts, kidneys and tendons for transplant. But no federal law governs the sale of cadavers or body parts for use in research or education. Few state ...