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"Unfortunately the Philippines has been pictured as a place where people could buy a kidney. There are some clandestine things still going on, but I hope the kidney trade will soon be closed down ...

Health authorities in the Philippines will this week announce a ban on most kidney transplants for foreign patients in a bid to stem a thriving trade in organs, health ministry sources said Monday.

The Philippines is banning kidney transplants for foreigners, part of a government crackdown on a growing but illicit trade in human organs bought from the poor, officials said Tuesday.

he flew to the Philippines with £40,000 in savings ready to buy a new organ from a living donor. The 43-year-old hopes to find a poverty-stricken Filipino desperate enough to sell him a kidney.

The Philippines is banning kidney transplants for foreigners because of a surge in the illegal trade organs taken from poor donors who sell their body parts out of financial desperation.

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As the United States sends aid to the Philippines to assist with recovery ... so she could donate a kidney to Esther Slubski, 75, of Old Bethpage, a long-time family friend with end stage renal ...