First transplantation among HIV patients

- American surgeons at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore have ever performed the first organ transplants between HIV patients. The liver and a kidney from a deceased person with HIV went to two different people who are also infected with the virus.

The successful operations are prohibited three years after the abolition of a law that organ transplants for people with the virus. According to the hospital die every year between five hundred and six hundred people with HIV, whose organs are healthy. Now it is shown that a transplantation is possible, there can, according to the hospital, many lives are being saved.