By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-26 21:24:46 | Updated at 2024-11-29 10:26:07
2 days ago
US approves HIV-infected organ transplants in bid to cut down deadly waiting lists
UK Daily Mail ^ | 11/26/2024 | Health Reporter
Posted on 11/26/2024 1:01:03 PM PST by DFG
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 announced Tuesday by U.S. health officials.
Previously, such transplants could be done only as part of research studies.
The new rule, which takes effect Wednesday, is expected to shorten the wait for organs for all, regardless of HIV status, by increasing the pool of available organs.
'This rule removes unnecessary barriers to kidney and liver transplants, expanding the organ donor pool and improving outcomes for transplant recipients with HIV,' said U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra in a statement.
The safety of the practice is supported by research, including a study published last month in the New England Journal of Medicine.
That study followed 198 organ recipients for up to four years, comparing those who received kidneys from HIV-positive donors to those whose kidneys came from donors without HIV.
Both groups had similar high rates of overall survival and low rates of organ rejection.
In 2010, surgeons in South Africa provided the first evidence that using HIV-positive donor organs was safe in people with HIV.
But the practice wasn't allowed in the United States until 2013 when the government lifted a ban and allowed research studies.
At first, the studies were with deceased donors. Then in 2019, a team 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.
HIV-positive organs won't be transplanted into patients who do not have the infection.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: hiv; homosexualagenda; transplants
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1 posted on 11/26/2024 1:01:03 PM PST by DFG
To: DFG
This will turn out well...
2 posted on 11/26/2024 1:01:43 PM PST by kosciusko51
To: DFG
AIDS The first disease to have civil rights.
3 posted on 11/26/2024 1:03:19 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
To: kosciusko51
That’s why migration is at an all time high. Look Up ORGAN HARVESTING.
4 posted on 11/26/2024 1:03:24 PM PST by Singermom
To: DFG
If I didn’t know any better, I’d say our government was trying to kill us.....................
5 posted on 11/26/2024 1:03:41 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: DFG
I’d go to China and buy a fresh, clean organ thank you very much.
6 posted on 11/26/2024 1:04:09 PM PST by packagingguy
To: BenLurkin
--- "AIDS The first disease to have civil rights."
And Anthony Fauci was there, Johnny on the spot.
To: DFG
This will be overturned on Jan 20th.
8 posted on 11/26/2024 1:07:28 PM PST by libh8er
To: DFG
The Homo lobby wanted this. Democrats grovel at the feet of the Homo lobby.
9 posted on 11/26/2024 1:08:26 PM PST by libh8er
To: DFG
Today they're approving transplants from HIV donors to HIV recipients.
Tomorrow, HIV recipients will get first dibs ahead of non-HIV recipients for organs from non-HIV donors.
Then it'll be non-HIV recipients will be forced to take organs from HIV donors or lose their place in line.
10 posted on 11/26/2024 1:09:07 PM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
To: kosciusko51
Actually it will.
The article states, that you’re using an organ from an HIV infected person, for transplant into a person with HIV.
NOT HIV to non-HIV.
11 posted on 11/26/2024 1:09:43 PM PST by Red6
To: libh8er
12 posted on 11/26/2024 1:12:09 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children)
To: BenLurkin
Or as Sam Kinison called it “the black plague of the 80s”
13 posted on 11/26/2024 1:13:27 PM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
To: kosciusko51
I know right?.....sounds more like a double death sentence to me.
14 posted on 11/26/2024 1:14:08 PM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
To: Tell It Right
Actually the opposite will happen.
If you use organs from HIV infected people for transplant into other HIV infected people, you free up those organs of non-HIV infected individuals. As it was, many usable organs went to waste and now they can be utilized, which in net positively impacts those without HIV also.
15 posted on 11/26/2024 1:14:15 PM PST by Red6
To: Red6
Sounds like a futile proposition
16 posted on 11/26/2024 1:15:47 PM PST by Vaduz
To: DFG
It constantly amazes me how our government bows and worships before the cult of the homosexual deviant.
17 posted on 11/26/2024 1:16:04 PM PST by PGR88
To: Red6
If you really believe that is how it will turn out I have some bad news for you.
18 posted on 11/26/2024 1:18:49 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
To: DFG
All the care about is cranking that money-churn.
19 posted on 11/26/2024 1:20:55 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
To: Tell It Right
Oh, that seems so reasonable a progression.
20 posted on 11/26/2024 1:23:02 PM PST by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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