Poverty drives Iraq organ trade
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Abject poverty across Iraq is fuelling an illegal trade in human organs.Hundreds of people are believed to have sold kidneys and other organs through dealers in the capital, Baghdad, over the last year.Karim Hussein made the long journey from Amara, a province in the south of Iraq, to Baghdad because he was desperate for the $3,000 he would get from the sale of a kidney there.
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