Filipinos selling their kidneys on the black market can receive between $2,000 to $10,000. In addition, organ traffickers who find kidney donors are paid a finders fee between $1,000 to $1,500 per transplant.
Tag: Organ Trafficking
Latest news, information and statistics on organ trafficking. Data collected from public sources such as criminal court cases, lawyer statements, arrest reports, and other law enforcement reports.
Locations Where Illegal Organ Trade Occurs
The World Health Organization and Reuters produced a factsheet stating the top five locations where organ trafficking is prevalent. The countries are as follows: 1. China 2. Pakistan 3. Egypt 4. Colombia 5. Philippines
Illegal Organ Trade Prices in Moldova
Organ sellers in Moldova receive between $2,500 to $3,000, with recipients paying between $100,000 to $250,000.
Kidney brokers in Moldova paid $100 to $200
In Moldova, brokers are paid $100 or $200 for each person they recruit to sell their kidneys.
Kidney brokers in Moldova paid $100 to $200
In Moldova, brokers are paid $100 or $200 for each person they recruit to sell their kidneys.
Price of Kidney from Executed Chinese Prisoner
In Canada, as many as 50 people are believed to have paid as much as $75,000 for a kidney transplant in China. The organs are believed to have been culled from executed Chinese prisoners.
Price paid for trafficked kidney
Published news articles have reported of individuals paying between $100,000 to $150,000 for a trafficked kidney.
Organs for transplant supplied by poor
According to Reuters, “Commercial living donors, mainly poor and vulnerable individuals in need of money, are thought to supply 10 percent of the world’s transplanted kidneys.
Average Waiting Time for a Kidney
According to the Economist, “In America, the average waiting time for a kidney is now five years, up from less than a year in the 1980s. In Britain, there are around 6,000 people who need a transplant – and less than 2,000 such operation take place each year.”
Average Waiting Time for a Kidney
According to the Economist, “In America, the average waiting time for a kidney is now five years, up from less than a year in the 1980s. In Britain, there are around 6,000 people who need a transplant – and less than 2,000 such operation take place each year.”