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“Seeing others suffer is too stressful”: Why people buy, trade, donate medications on the black market

By Guest PostMay 23, 2020Healthblack market, buy, caucasian women, medication, michelle litchman, people with diabetes, sean oser

Altruism and a lack of access and affordability are three reasons why people with chronic illnesses turn to the “black market” for medicines and supplies, new research shows. Scientists at University of Utah Health and University of Colorado ran surveys to understand why individuals look beyond pharmacies and medical equipment companies to meet essential needs. The reasons listed were many but centered on a single theme: traditional health care is failing them. (more…)

‘I sold my kidney … to repay the loans’

By Guest PostMarch 18, 2013Economy, Healthblack market, human organ traffickers, microcredit loan, organ trafficking, sell an organ, selling a kidney, united states, village near joypurhat

Selling a kidney or part of one’s liver to pay off loans is becoming increasingly common in Bangladesh, where desperate villagers are being exploited by human organ traffickers, a Michigan State University researcher has found. (more…)

Growing Market for Human Organs Exploits Poor

By Guest PostMarch 13, 2012General, Health, Mediaanthropologist, Bangladesh, bangladeshi newspaper, black market, body parts, corneas, dhaka, Europe, exploitation, health problems, human kidney, human organ trafficking, India, kidneys, livers, mehedi hasan, michigan state university, middle east, monir moniruzzaman, organ broker, organ trade, organ trafficking, poor people, rickshaw puller, transplant, united states, us congress, us senate committee, victims

EAST LANSING, Mich. — A Michigan State University anthropologist who spent more than a year infiltrating the black market for human kidneys has published the first in-depth study describing the often horrific experiences of poor people who were victims of organ trafficking.

Monir Moniruzzaman interviewed 33 kidney sellers in his native Bangladesh and found they typically didn’t get the money they were promised and were plagued with serious health problems that prevented them from working, shame and depression. (more…)

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“Seeing others suffer is too stressful”: Why people buy, trade, donate medications on the black market

‘I sold my kidney … to repay the loans’

Growing Market for Human Organs Exploits Poor