First organ transplant for HIV-infected people

The US claims to have successfully implemented the world's first two kidney and liver transplants between two HIV-infected people.

Abcnews reported that doctors in Maryland's Johns Hopkins Medicine Hospital have successfully performed the world's first liver and kidney transplant between donors and recipients who are HIV-positive.

Dorry Segev, a professor at John Hopkins University, said kidney transplant patients were discharged from the hospital and liver transplant patients were carried out a few weeks ago and gave good results. The health of both recipients and donors is recovering from the major surgery, scheduled to be discharged in the next few days. The hospital leader also said that these internal organs are functioning well and after surgery there are no complications.

Each year about 500 HIV-infected patients die while healthy organs can donate organs.(Photo: Brendan Smialowski).

According to researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, about 500 HIV-infected patients die each year while healthy organs can donate organs. Therefore, allowing the use of their organs for transplantation for other HIV-infected patients will save about 1,000 people each year. Successful transplantation is the result of the Equal Policy on HIV Transplant 2013, paving the way for organ transplants among HIV-infected people.

Dr. Segev said : "We thank the National Assembly, the President and the entire transplant community for letting us use organs from HIV-positive patients to save lives instead of throwing them away for years. This is a new step that will bring hope to many HIV-infected patients who need more organ transplants in the future. "

Previously, US law did not recognize organ transplants among HIV-infected patients , so HIV patients were only received from non-HIV-infected organ donors. However, due to the small amount of organ donors, many HIV-infected patients died before they received organ transplant surgery. In 2013, US President Barack Obama paved the way for organ transplants between people infected with the virus that suppressed the immune system.

About 122,000 people in the US are in need of organ transplants.