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May 2023
27m 18s

Generation Change: Tackling taboos aroun...

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Babita Sharma talks to young people who are trying to save lives by tackling taboos around organ donation in countries including India and the UK. She also speaks to Nobel Prize-winning economist Alvin Roth, who discusses his work on kidney donation.

Generation Change is a co-production of the BBC and Nobel Prize Outreach

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