'The broker also told me that I will not have problems after selling because we have two and we can survive on one kidney': Findings from an ethnographic study of a village with one kidney in Central Nepal.

ABSTRACT: Kidney selling is a global phenomenon engraved by poverty and governance in low-income countries with the higher-income countries functioning as recipients and the lower-income countries as donors. Over the years, an increasing number of residents in a village near the capital city of Nepal have sold their kidneys. This study aims to explore the drivers of kidney selling and its consequences using ethnographic methods and multi-stakeholder consultations. An ethnographic approach was used in which the researcher lived and observed the residents' life and carried out formal and informal interactions including in-depth interviews with key informants, community members and kidney sellers in Hokse village, Kavrepalanchok district. Participants in the village were interacted by researchers who r

SUBMITTER: Shrestha B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10021627 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature