People with HIV can safely receive donated kidneys from deceased donors with the virus, according to a large study that comes as the U.S. government moves to expand the practice.
That could shorten the wait for organs for all, regardless of HIV status.The new study, published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, looked at 198 kidney transplants performed across the U.S. Researchers found similar results whether the donated organ came from a person with or without the AIDS virus.Last month, the Department of Health and Human Services proposed a rule change that would allow these types of kidney and liver transplants outside of research studies.
But the practice wasn’t allowed in the United States until 2013 when the government lifted a ban and allowed research studies, at the urging of Segev. At first, the studies were with deceased donors. Then in 2019, Segev and others at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore performed the world’s first kidney transplant from a living donor with HIV to an HIV-positive recipient.All told, 500 transplants of kidneys and livers from HIV-positive donors have been done in the U.S.
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