Statistics
Law
Legal and Illegal Organ Trade
Process
Health
100
What is the most common organ sold on the black market?
Kidneys are most commonly sold. They make up 75% of trade.
100
What organization plays a major role in condemning illegal organ trade?
The World Health Organization (WHO).
100
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.
100
Do doctors care for patients after an organ is removed?
No which causes a major health risk.
200
What percent of donors fall below the poverty line?
71%.
200
What have countries created due tot eh fact that the declaration of Istanbul is non-binding?
The coutries have created their own local laws.
200
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.
200
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.
300
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.
300
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.
300
Name 3 countries where organ trade is illegal in any form.
United States, Brazil, Israel, South Africa, and Britain.
300
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.
300
How many people die everyday waiting for an organ which causes an increase in the buying and selling of organs?
18 people.
400
Why has illegal trade increased since 2008?
Global financial crash.
400
What organization declared organ trading illegal in 1987 because it violates the universal declaration of human rights?
The World Health Organization (WHO).
400
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.
400
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.
400
In what country did 58% of donors report a negative consequence in their health status?
Iran.
500
What are two factors that increase the illegal buying and selling of organs?
Poverty and lack of law enforcement.
500
What act in 1994 influenced India to become illegal?
Transplantation of Human Organs Act.
500
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.
500
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.
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