And it is also clear that despite stringent transplant rules, no HIV-positive patient needs to die for want of an organ.
HIV, read in the Eighties as an immediate sentence to a lingering death, has now been controlled to the extent that a living HIV-positive woman has donated a kidney to an HIV-positive recipient. Living-to-living donation is commonplace among people without serious conditions, but was hitherto unknown in the HIV-positive community, where even the possibility of receiving a kidney is limited by the condition that the patient must have a zero viral load. Read More
And it is also clear that despite stringent transplant rules, no HIV-positive patient needs to die for want of an organ.