Organ Trafficking: Global Solutions for a Global Problem

Adjusted annual death rates in wait-listed (WL) patients and transplant recipients per 1,000 patient-years on the basis of 5 years of actual or projected follow-up. Reproduced from Meier-Kriesche et al¹⁵ with permission of the American Society of Nephrology.

Kidney vendor, aged 27 years, in Moldova in 2002. Tricked by a broker in Chisenau into selling a kidney in Istanbul, he believed that he would be working in construction. Reproduced from Scheper-Hughes⁴¹ with permission of Elsevier.