{"id":21269,"date":"2013-04-01T11:48:04","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T11:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/?p=21269"},"modified":"2013-04-03T10:46:32","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T10:46:32","slug":"us-senate-supports-bill-to-allow-hiv-positive-organ-donations-to-hiv-positive-recipients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/21269","title":{"rendered":"US Senate supports bill to allow HIV positive organ donations to HIV positive recipients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Simon Collins, HIV i-Base<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>On 20 March 2013, the US Senate approved legislation that should end the long-standing ban against HIV positive people donating organs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is the first stage for the HIV Organ Policy Equity (HOPE) Act. [1]<\/p>\n<p>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]<\/p>\n<p>The bill was endorsed by the American Medical Association.<\/p>\n<p>Sources:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Boxer, Coburn Praise Senate HELP Committee Passage of the HOPE Act.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/boxer.senate.gov\/en\/press\/releases\/032013.cfm\">http:\/\/boxer.senate.gov\/en\/press\/releases\/032013.cfm<\/a><\/li>\n<li>New York Times. A new push to let HIV patients accept organs that are infected. (11 April 2011).<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/04\/11\/us\/11hiv.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/04\/11\/us\/11hiv.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}