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WASHINGTON (AP) – Baltimore surgeons are believed to be the first kidney transplant of a living donor with HIV, a long-awaited step.
Nina Martinez, a 35-year-old woman from Atlanta, went to Johns Hopkins University to donate to an HIV-positive stranger. She says that she wanted to make a difference in someone else's life and fight the stigma badociated with HIV infection.
Only recently have doctors begun transplanting organs from deceased donors with HIV into HIV-positive recipients. Hopkins said it's time to try living donation with HIV because newer anti-HIV treatments are less likely to harm the donor's remaining kidney.
Hopkins says the donor and the receiver are recovering well. Experts say that if more HIV-positive patients have a living donor, this could free up the waiting list for transplants in the country.
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