Transplant Brokers in #Israel Lure Desperate Kidney Patients to #Costa_Rica - NYTimes.com
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/17/world/middleeast/transplant-brokers-in-israel-lure-desperate-kidney-patients-to-costa-rica.h
Long criminalized across the globe, the organ trade was handed an unequivocal rebuke at a worldwide conference of transplant practitioners in 2008. The group’s manifesto, called the Declaration of Istanbul, asserted that trafficking violated “the principles of equity, justice and respect for human dignity and should be prohibited.”
And yet the prospective market for trafficked kidneys has grown unabated as the gap between supply and demand widens each year.