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Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: News Articles => Topic started by: rcjordan on March 26, 2019, 06:44:17 AM

Title: Atlanta woman becomes country's first HIV+ living kidney donor
Post by: rcjordan on March 26, 2019, 06:44:17 AM

http://www.fox5atlanta.com/health/fox-medical-team/atlanta-woman-becomes-country-s-first-living-kidney-donor

Title: Re: Atlanta woman becomes country's first HIV+ living kidney donor
Post by: iolaire on March 28, 2019, 07:22:23 AM

Another story on this one:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/first-living-hiv-positive-donor-provides-kidney-for-transplant-in-medical-breakthrough/2019/03/28/29894312-50bc-11e9-88a1-ed346f0ec94f_story.html

A public health consultant who lives in Atlanta, Martinez was aware of the HIV Organ Policy Equity Act when it was enacted in 2013. The next year, she saw an episode of the television show “Grey’s Anatomy” in which the writers invented a story about a transplant from a live HIV-positive donor. She eventually contacted Segev and volunteered for the grueling regimen of tests that led her to become the first person in the Hopkins clinical trial.

I hear people bashing Grey’s Anatomy but this is a good outcome from a made up medical story on TV...