First Liver/Kidney Transplant Between HIV+ Patients Successful
Surgeons at Johns Hopkins Medical Center have successfully transplanted a liver and kidney from one deceased HIV+ donor and transplanted them into two HIV+ recipients. The LA Times reports: The transplant surgeries, which used organs donated by the family of an HIV-positive woman, ended a 25-year stretch in which the organs of HIV-infected people willing to donate them were rejected for use in transplants. The experimental procedure follows the 2013 enactment of the HIV Organ Policy Equity Act, or HOPE, which repealed the ban on using such organs for transplantation.