Organ trafficking cracked down upon in the Phillippines

Darkfrog submitted, created time 8 months 1 week (www.nytimes.com)

Poor Filipinos can make between $2000 and $10,000 (USD) by selling kidneys to sick foreigners. This has been illegal for many years, but a sixty percent increase in illegal kidney "donations" between 2004 and 2006 has sparked the government of the Phillippines to forbid foreign kidney donations entirely. With the exception of foreigners related by blood to Filipino citizens, this part of the Phillippines' medical tourism industry is to come to an end.

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