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 ...

People with HIV will soon be permitted to receive transplanted kidneys and livers from donors who are also infected with the ...

A new rule from the Biden administration allows organ transplants from HIV-positive donors to HIV-positive recipients.

In a landmark decision aimed at addressing the nationwide organ shortage, the Biden administration announced a new rule on ...

The HIV Organ Policy Equity (HOPE) Act, effective since 2013, legally allows organ transplants from donors with HIV to recipients with HIV within approved clinical research studies. The NEJM ...

Back in the 80′s, organ donation was banned for HIV-positive organs ... reverse that law and to make it so you can do these transplants, not really under research anymore, but as a standard ...

Now, Duke doctors say their success with transplants like this one could help pave ... “Similarly, if we now have great ways of controlling HIV, which we do, the use of organ donation is totally safe ...

The scientists have confirmed that kidney transplants involving HIV-positive donors and HIV-positive recipients are harmless and are just as effective as organ transplants from people without HIV. The ...

The policy was in response to a time when HIV testing could not detect the ... and 90s when at least 10 people unknowingly received transplants from positive donors. "The cornea is an unlikely ...