US Senate supports bill to allow HIV positive organ donations to HIV positive recipients
1 April 2013. Related: Other news.
Simon Collins, HIV i-Base
On 20 March 2013, the US Senate approved legislation that should end the long-standing ban against HIV positive people donating organs.
This is the first stage for the HIV Organ Policy Equity (HOPE) Act. [1]
The ban has been in place since 1998 and has prevented HIV positive people participating in living donor programmes to other HIV positive partners. [2]
The bill was endorsed by the American Medical Association.
Sources:
- Boxer, Coburn Praise Senate HELP Committee Passage of the HOPE Act.
http://boxer.senate.gov/en/press/releases/032013.cfm - New York Times. A new push to let HIV patients accept organs that are infected. (11 April 2011).
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/11/us/11hiv.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0