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Trafficking in Persons: Should medical practitioners be involved in practical solutions?

In the last 20 years, human trafficking has become a global problem of unforeseen proportions. Human trafficking affects every country in the world, regardless of socioeconomic status, history, or political structure and most countries are a source, transit, and destination for victims of human trafficking. In fact, the profits from human trafficking are immense and the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime places human trafficking as the fastest growing and second most profitable form of transnational crime (Chong & Clark, 2014). Due to the complex nature of trafficking in person, data available on the number of people trafficked are indiscriminate. Conservative estimates suggest that at least 2.5 million women, children, and men are lured or forced across international borders (transnational human trafficking) every year and a significant amount are trafficked within borders (internal human trafficking)and forced to work against their will often in unsafe deplorable conditions