Posted on 03/28/2019 10:39:29 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Surgeons in Baltimore have performed what’s thought to be the world’s first kidney transplant from a living donor with HIV, a milestone for patients with the AIDS virus who need a new organ — and one that could free up space on the transplant waiting list for everyone.
Nina Martinez of Atlanta traveled to Johns Hopkins University to donate a kidney to an HIV-positive stranger, saying she “wanted to make a difference in somebody else’s life” and counter the stigma that too often still surrounds HIV infection. […]
“Here’s a disease that in the past was a death sentence and now has been so well controlled that it offers people with that disease an opportunity to save somebody else,” said Dr. Dorry Segev, a Hopkins surgeon who pushed for the HIV Organ Policy Equity, or HOPE, Act that lifted a 25-year U.S. ban on transplants between people with HIV.
There’s no count of how many HIV-positive patients are among the 113,000 people on the nation’s waiting list for an organ transplant. HIV-positive patients can receive transplants from HIV-negative donors just like anyone else. …
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Yes, I well remember the "AIDS is Everyone's Problem" t.v. campaign.
So, she did a lot of traveling and went through very serious surgery to make a point.
By the way her surgery is much more dangerous and has a much longer recovery than does the recipient.
This woman is a true believer.
“saying she “wanted to make a difference in somebody else’s life” and counter the stigma that too often still surrounds HIV infection. “
that’s stupid. But hey, whatever your liberal guilt tells ya’..
BTW, being HIV is a stigma based on faggot sex. Quit being a fag, you wont get HIV. Pretty simple..
Sounds like they had real AHOLEs at that center. I mean...to me it would be a strange inconsistency that a real liar would subsequently be truthful about an incident he says he had forgotten about earlier. To me, I would simply agree that he had forgotten but lets test everything because we really don’t want to lose an otherwise reliable donor. If the tests were fine...then donate(and try not to forget next time something like this happens)
But that’s just me being reasonable....
Takes bugchasing to a new level.
As many state the obvious: what could possibly go wrong?
The virus mutates so the strain one person has is different from what the next person has. This would mean mixing the two and then what? It goes back to the old saying that just because you can doesn’t mean you should.
I think it’s intended for HIV infected recipients
This may be the best freepers don’t read the article thread ever
Thanks for posting it
Yeah, I know they are all covered up but how would you like to be on the surgical team? Blood everywhere.
Twenty years later, it still angers me our ex-neighbors lied saying their son had a non-life threatening disease when in fact he died of AIDS. They’d rather hide it than keep everyone else safe. He was a model. I still think he paid a gal to marry him right before announcing he was ill. A year later, he was wheelchair bound. Now that he (an only child) and his parents are deceased, she is quite wealthy.
So both patients had HIV? No risk of a new infection. Or am I missing something?
There is always risk of infection during any surgery. If not by HIV, then by some other pathogen. Never mind the risk to the surgeons.
Concepts of reinfection and coinfection seems to be foreign to these dopes.
For now.
But with doctors amputating the wrong limb, performing the wrong surgery on the wrong patient, it’s not a question of if, but when they screw up badly.
That risk is more acute with not screening HIV for blood donations than with HIV TO HIV organ donations
Which is just asinine .....unthinkable
Organ donations in America are tightly controlled
I’ve got personal family experience with it.
American hospitals belong to donation groups that restrict origin sourcing
All this does is let sick folks HIV positive accept HIV positive organs from donors dead or otherwise depending on organ
If someone feels that HIV positive folks are too sick to waste organs and the operation expense on..
That’s another argument
An otherwise healthy person with HIV who takes their meds can live a normal life
And I know many here disagree but everyone with HIV didn’t get HIV from risky or careless or immoral behavior.
I knew a beautiful green eyed Cuban lady when I lived in Miami in the early HIV days who got it from her homosexual in denial husband
She withered away and died in five years....no meds back then.
actually i’m ok with this. if you aren’t hiv positive would you WANT an organ from an hiv positive person just because you were at the top of the list?
i wouldn’t. i’ll wait a little longer for a non-infected organ, thank you very much.
“How long until these people demand that they have a “right” to donate their HIV organs in order to avoid “stigma?”
The same for blood.”
the blood donations have already been approved
Aw, precious.
One would imagine she received a dollar amount.
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