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. “There are potentially tens of thousands of people living with HIV right now who could be living kidney donors,” said Segev, who has advised some other hospitals considering the approach. And if more people living with HIV wind up donating, it helps more than HIV-positive patients who need a kidney. “That helps everybody on the list.”Martinez, a public health consultant, became interested in living donation even before HIV-to-HIV transplants began.

Source: National Post March 28, 2019 12:56 UTC