Afghans say they are also forced to sell kidneys and their daughters to get money for food.
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Others showed us strips of escilatopram and sertraline tablets they said they were giving their children. They are usually prescribed to treat depression and anxiety. Ammar said he had surgery to remove his kidney three months ago and showed us a nine-inch scar - stitch marks still a bit pink - running across his abdomen from the front of his body to the back.
"If we eat one night, we don't the next. After selling my kidney, I feel like I'm half a person. I feel hopeless. If life continues like this, I feel I might die," he said. "We have no money to buy food, so I announced at the local mosque that I want to sell my daughter," her father Hazratullah said.
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