What is the most common organ sold on the black market?
Kidneys are most commonly sold. They make up 75% of trade.
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What organization plays a major role in condemning illegal organ trade?
The World Health Organization (WHO).
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What country is the only country that allows the legal buying and selling of organs?
Iran. The market is contained within the country.
100
Where is the main pace people look for clinics?
The internet.
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Do doctors care for patients after an organ is removed?
No which causes a major health risk.
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What percent of donors fall below the poverty line?
71%.
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What have countries created due tot eh fact that the declaration of Istanbul is non-binding?
The coutries have created their own local laws.
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What situation of illegal organ trade is most common to be found in the United States?
Black market in the U.S. usually involves bodies about to be cremated. Funeral directors are often the people illegally selling the organs.
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What three countries do most people go to get an organ illegally removed?
China, India, or Pakistan.
200
Name three organs sold on the black market.
Kidneys, bone marrow, lungs, or corneas.
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Why does Israel have a low rate in the buying and selling of organs?
Israel is populated by Jewish people who are not allowed to mutilate their body in any way.
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What is the name of the non-binding 2008 statement against global organ trade which was agreed to by almost 100 nations.
Declaration of Istanbul.
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Name 3 countries where organ trade is illegal in any form.
United States, Brazil, Israel, South Africa, and Britain.
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Name 3 types of people involved in the buying and selling of organs?
The recruiter, transporter, hospital or clinic, staff, medical professionals, middlemen, contractors, buyers, and banks.
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How many people die everyday waiting for an organ which causes an increase in the buying and selling of organs?
18 people.
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Why has illegal trade increased since 2008?
Global financial crash.
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What organization declared organ trading illegal in 1987 because it violates the universal declaration of human rights?
The World Health Organization (WHO).
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China ended the legal sale of organs. Name the two types of conditions the people in China have to be in in order to take organs from them.
China can only take organs from deceased prisoners and brain dead patients if they sign a legal agreement.
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Name two ways an organ trafficker takes advantage of people.
1) Traffickers force or deceive people into giving up an organ.
2) They agree to give up an organ but are not paid or paid less than what was promised.
3) The organ is removed from a victim without their knowledge.
4) The victim lacks knowledge of what a kidney or another organ is.
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In what country did 58% of donors report a negative consequence in their health status?
Iran.
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What are two factors that increase the illegal buying and selling of organs?
Poverty and lack of law enforcement.
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What act in 1994 influenced India to become illegal?
Transplantation of Human Organs Act.
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What country most recently declared the buying and selling of organs illegal?
The buying and selling of organs was legal in the Philippines until 2008.
500
Name the country that has been found to be illegally harvesting organs from children and where are these organs being harvested sent to.
Brazil is harvesting the organs that are being sent to South Africa.
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How does selling an organ affect their economic well being?
Most donors work by doing manual labor and if their health decreases and they become unable to work their economic well being will decrease as well.