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Surgeons at Johns Hopkins Medicine performed the procedure on Nina Martinez, left, a 35-year-old woman living with HIV, who donated her kidney to an unnamed recipient. Dr. Dorry Segev, right, a professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins. Photo courtesy of Johns Hopkins Medicine

 The world’s first kidney transplantation from a person living with HIV to a recipient also living with HIV took place on Monday. Surgeons at Johns Hopkins Medicine performed the procedure on Nina Martinez, a 35-year-old woman living with HIV, who donated her kidney to an unnamed recipient. Read More

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