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Desperate Afghans resort to selling their kidneys to feed families

AFP, 28 Feb 2022
With Afghanistan plunged into financial crisis following the Taliban takeover six months ago, a growing number of people are selling their kidneys to save their families. The practice has become so widespread in the western city of Herat that a nearby settlement is bleakly nicknamed "one kidney village".

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