The Pope has invited Griffith University researcher Dr Campbell Fraser to a world summit in February on the sale of human organs on the black market – a market so lucrative it is more profitable than drug trafficking.
Dr Fraser says organ trafficking has also become a major source of terrorist funding in the Middle East.
Increasing organ donations after death holds the key to a solution, but is an area where Australia lags behind other leading nations, he asserts.
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Dr Fraser, an academic at Griffith Business School, has been invited by the Vatican to address a major Summit on Organ Trafficking next month.
“I will be talking about the need to take a holistic approach to the problem of organ trafficking,” he said.
“We have to find sustainable and ethical ways to source organs to ensure we don’t do just as much harm as good. It’s important to