Researchers have been experimenting with transplants between HIV-positive donors and HIV-positive recipients, and a new study shows that these can be done with increasingly promising results.
When doctors from Groote Schuur Hospital in South Africa first reported on their work transplanting kidneys between HIV-positive patients back in 2010, the results were so positive that it led the United States to lift a research ban on the practice. It’s now five years later, and that same hospital is publishing the results of how its original patients are doing in The New England Journal of Medicine. The report includes more than 20 additional patients, after an average of about three years following the transplant.
via The Verge
