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Filipino poor sell kidneys to survive

AFP - Thu Jul 10, 5:48 AM ET

The Philippines is listed by the World Health Organisation as an organ trafficking "hotspot". Thousands of poor Filipinos living in slums or rural areas have given up a kidney in exchange for a few thousand dollars.

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