Posted on 11/26/2024 1:01:03 PM PST by DFG
People with HIV who need a kidney or liver transplant will be able to receive an organ from a donor with HIV under a new rule announced Tuesday by U.S. health officials.
Previously, such transplants could be done only as part of research studies.
The new rule, which takes effect Wednesday, is expected to shorten the wait for organs for all, regardless of HIV status, by increasing the pool of available organs.
'This rule removes unnecessary barriers to kidney and liver transplants, expanding the organ donor pool and improving outcomes for transplant recipients with HIV,' said U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra in a statement.
The safety of the practice is supported by research, including a study published last month in the New England Journal of Medicine.
That study followed 198 organ recipients for up to four years, comparing those who received kidneys from HIV-positive donors to those whose kidneys came from donors without HIV.
Both groups had similar high rates of overall survival and low rates of organ rejection.
In 2010, surgeons in South Africa provided the first evidence that using HIV-positive donor organs was safe in people with HIV.
But the practice wasn't allowed in the United States until 2013 when the government lifted a ban and allowed research studies.
At first, the studies were with deceased donors. Then in 2019, a team at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore performed the world's first kidney transplant from a living donor with HIV to an HIV-positive recipient.
All told, 500 transplants of kidneys and livers from HIV-positive donors have been done in the U.S.
HIV-positive organs won't be transplanted into patients who do not have the infection.
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JFK Jr. Pick up the phone please....
HIV organs go great with spike proteins and raw sewage beer. Have another big beautiful clot shot that saves lives and protects you from the HIV spike protein the NIH Crispr’d into the Sars virus.
Sincerely, pyramid hand sign guy.
“”The safety of the practice is supported by research””
“They” still don’t get it, do they? We’re not going to fall for their claptrap EVER AGAIN!
Go to it, RFK, Jr.
For sure. It is why Fauci is a hero to the left. He led the effort to push the lie that AIDS was not primarily a gay/addict disease
I guess if the choice is HIV, or death... You don’t have much of a choice. People can live with HIV.
Frankly though... I’d prefer a clean liver. That’s what Mickey Mantle always said.
Oh! Gee - mistakes never happen, do they? OOOPPS!
And I’m not even sure it matters, since your immune system is going to be shut off, anyway, to keep you from rejecting the new organ. It’ll be as if you have HIV, anyway, as far as I understand.
Steering infected donor organs to infected people is ok. But what about the reverse question: what about liver and kidney transplants from healthy people to HIV positive people? Is there any linkage between HIV and liver or kidney failure?
I have in mind the issues that arise (or used to arise) with regard to liver transplants to chronic alcoholics. If there is a waiting list and multiple compatible recipients for an available liver, do we prioritize people who did not induce their disease?
“”you free up those organs of non-HIV infected individuals. As it was, many usable organs went to waste and now they can be utilized, which in net positively impacts those without HIV also.””
How so? Why were usable organs going to waste? Does not make any sense.
You meant RFK, Jr.....
Yes...
“”That’s what Mickey Mantle always said.””
That might be what he said. It’s not how he lived!!! Known to be a very heavy drinker.
“AIDS The first disease to have civil rights”
In California you must disclose if someone has died in the house you are selling unless the person died of AIDS.
The headline is a contradiction in itself.
Now, there is some strong irony in that headline
OMG-—
WHAT KIND IDIOTS ARE RUNNING OUR HEALTH STANDARDS????
And yet... The lucky recipient of a donor liver. It’s good to be rich and famous... David Crosby, another lucky liver recipient.
they will never be happy until everyone is as AIDS infested as they are.
Well, THAT sounds reasonable.
“HIV-positive organs won’t be transplanted into patients who do not have the infection.”
Well we hope so!
The Clinton HIV fiasco resulted in way too many deaths, with no repercussions for the crime!
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