Could HIV-Infected Organs Save Lives? - Johns Hopkins University Study

Futurity -- JOHNS HOPKINS (US) — Legally allowing people with HIV to be organ donors after death, could ensure that as many as 500 HIV-positive kidney or liver failure patients each year would only wait months—not years—for a transplant. “If this legal ban were lifted, we could potentially provide organ transplants to every single HIV-infected transplant candidate on the waiting list,” says Dorry L. Segev, associate professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University.