Posted on February 10, 2016
Source: http://hub.jhu.edu/2016/02/08/first-hiv-positive-kidney-liver-transplants
From Johns Hopkins HUB:
"Johns Hopkins recently received approval from the United Network for Organ Sharing to be the first hospital in the United States to perform HIV-positive to HIV-positive organ transplants.
The institution will be the first in the nation to do an HIV-positive kidney transplant and the first in the world to execute an HIV-positive liver transplant.
'This is an unbelievably exciting day for our hospital and our team, but more importantly for patients living with HIV and end-stage organ disease. For these individuals, this means a new chance at life,' says Dorry Segev, associate professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
This announcement brings to fruition the two-year effort Segev put into helping draft the 2013 HOPE Act—a bill signed by President Obama that made it possible for HIV-positive individuals to donate organs, and one of only 57 bills passed in 2013."
