Perspective about being HIV positive are changing day by day. Now, HIV positive patient can also be a kidney donor according to the HIV Organ Policy Equity Act, 2013. Johns Hopkins Hospital has set the new example of successful kidney transplantation from a living HIV-positive donor to an HIV-positive recipient. HIV epidemic started in 1981 and infected millions of people over time. Advances in medicine have gained the ability to suppress the infection to the least level.
HIV positive patient cannot transfuse blood but now can donate the kidney. It is one of the revolutionary chapters in HIV history. Surgeons from Johns Hopkins Hospital, Washington, have transplanted 116 organs from deceased HIV-positive donors to HIV recipients since 2016. This time, a kidney from HIV positive 35-year-old donor has been transplanted successfully in an HIV positive recipient. It was implanted near the…
