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The Facts behind the story: Thousands of liters of blood plasma not screened for disease have been shipped to European, American and Asian laboratories over the past 30 years. Turned into expensive blood products there, they are then sold around the world. Hundreds of trafficking channels take part in this trade. As of now, this black market blood has claimed more than two million victims all over the world. Korina is one of hundreds of blood donors from Zimbabwe alone. When the Austrian Ministry of Health busted an Austrian blood-trafficking ring, thousands of liters of the killer liquid were quickly dumped on the Egyptian black market. Some of them were smuggled into Libya, where the infected blood was among the causes that condemned 500 innocent children to death from the AIDS virus. Amellé is one of them. All names in the story have been changed.
Harare, April 1997
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