Nina Martinez became the first living person with HIV to donate a kidney in the United States. The kidney will be donated to a recipient who is also HIV-positive.
“This is a groundbreaking day for HIV and transplantation,” said Dorry Sorgev, MD, PhD, the lead transplant surgeon, who added that Ms. Martinez, a healthy marathon runner, donated the kidney anonymously, meaning she does not know who will receive her kidney. “A disease that was a death sentence in the 1980s has
APRIL 12, 2019