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Fostering empowerment: Transition from self-help groups to cooperatives in leprosy-affected communities in Nepal

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By Dilip Shrestha, Bijaya Shrestha, Tika Bhairav, Subi Ansari
| PLOS
Citation: Shrestha D, Shrestha B, Ansari S, Sharma S, Puri S, Shakya A, et al. (2025) Fostering empowerment: Transition from self-help groups to cooperatives in leprosy-affected communities in Nepal. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 19(12): e0013799. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0013799 Editor: Anil Fastenau, Marie Adelaide Leprosy Centre Pakistan, PAKISTAN Received: January 7, 2025; Accepted: November 26, 2025; Published: December 5, 2025 Copyright: © 2025 Shrestha et al.
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Field notes from Nepal's single-kidney village

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By Bijaya Shrestha
| HT Syndication
Posted On: 2023-05-04 Posted By: Bijaya Shrestha Health & Lifestyle Travel Education Real Estate & Construction EKantipur.com Newspapers Nepal, May 4 -- Organ trading remains a mushrooming business around the world, as human organs, tissues or other body parts are sold and bought for transplantation. As the word trading suggests, monetary values are attached to the donors' organs, giving rise to societal problems.
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Opinion | Field notes from Nepal’s single-kidney village

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By Bijaya Shrestha
| The Kathmandu Post Verified
Organ trading remains a mushrooming business around the world, as human organs, tissues or other body parts are sold and bought for transplantation. As the word trading suggests, monetary values are attached to the donors' organs, giving rise to societal problems. The problem of organ trading is often attributed to poverty, but much deeper issues are linked to it. Only a systematic investigation will unearth why and how organ trading occurs in a particular community.
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