CFAR Presentations

Renal Transplantation of HIV+ Donors to HIV+ Recipients

Posted on May 07, 2015

Speaker(s): Elmi Muller, MD

Link to Online Presentation.

Professor Muller has the world's largest number of HIV to HIV transplants. In 2011, Professor Muller recieved South Africa's Woman of the Year award. Professor Muller trained at Pretoria and recieved her PhD from Oxford University. In order to address the lack of care and support provided for HIV-positive patients suffering from end stage renal disease, Professor Muller decided to develop a road to transplantation: previously denied state funded dialysis after being labelled non-suitable transplant patients, HIV-positive patients could receive the organs of HIV-positive donors.

Read more about Professor Muller's work: 

• Read the Lancet's profile, "Elmi Muller: bending rules, changing guidelines, making history" by Justine Davies and learn more about the barriers Professor Muller faced as she developed her transplant program. The above photograph is courtesy of the Lancet article and Katherine Traut of the University of Cape Town. 
• Read Dr. Elmi's paper entitled "Transplantation in resource-limited setting: using HIV-positive donors for HIV-positive patients," which was published in Clinical Nephrology in January 2015 
• Read Dr. Elmi's paper entitled "HIV-Positive-to-HIV-Postive Kidney Transplantation -- Results at 3 to 5 Years" in the New England Journal of Meidcine in 2015.