 The world-wide shortage has encouraged some countries—such as India—to trade in human organs.Reports of organs being removed from executed prisoners in China for sale internationally had been circulating since the mid-1980s, when a 1984 regulation made it legal to harvest organs from convicted criminals with the consent of the family or if the body goes unclaimed.Development of an immunosuppressant drug, cyclosporine A, made transplants a more viable option for patients.