Illegal organ trade is more sophisticated than one might think - who's behind it and how it could be controlled

By Frederike Ambagtsheer, Assistant Professor (Internal Medicine, Kidney Transplantation & Nephrology), Erasmus University Medical Center

Every now and then the trade in human organs makes national, even international, news.

In March 2023, a Nigerian politician, his wife and a medical middleman were found guilty of an organ-trafficking plot after they brought a man to the UK from Lagos to sell his kidney. Several months later in Kenya, following the arrest of a televangelist…

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