Posted on 03/28/2019 10:39:29 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Surgeons in Baltimore have performed whats thought to be the worlds 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 elses life and counter the stigma that too often still surrounds HIV infection. [ ]
Heres 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.
Theres no count of how many HIV-positive patients are among the 113,000 people on the nations waiting list for an organ transplant. HIV-positive patients can receive transplants from HIV-negative donors just like anyone else.
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
You are of course correct. I should have said no abnormal risk.
I always got the feeling that many of the poofters were hoping it WOULD spread far and wide for a variation of the same theme that one steward who may as well been a patient zero for having been such an evil bastard when he opined (essentially) if I’m sick and gonna die I’m going to infect as many as I can ... why should they live?
Many still screw everything that moves (and some things that don’t judging by occasional reports of auto exhaust pipe / plumbing / dead animal molestation) even though they may be infected.
Yikes!
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