HIV-positive patients can experience organ failure over time. Until recently, HIV-positive patients had little chance at securing an organ transplant, according to NBC 16. Peter Stock, MD, PhD, ...

Being HIV-positive can lead to organ failure over time, time that many patients can’t afford to wait. Up until recently, there was little or no chance these folks could get an organ transplant.

Peter Stock, M.D., Ph.D, a transplant surgeon at UC San Francisco, considers himself a representative specimen of his profession. “I think we’re all typically atypical,” he said, by which he means ...

Nina Martinez just became the world's first living HIV-positive organ donor. In a medical breakthrough, surgeons at Johns Hopkins Hospital late last month successfully transplanted one of her kidneys ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. An Atlanta woman became the first living HIV ...

A large-scale clinical trial launched by the National Institutes of Health in May could pave the way for more HIV-positive patients with kidney disease to receive life-saving transplants. The trial, ...

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An Atlanta woman became the first living HIV-positive kidney donor in the world on Monday when surgeons at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore transferred her organ to a recipient who is also ...