AUGUST 14, 2023

Donating a Kidney Appears Safe for People With HIV

By IDSE News Staff

A new study shows three living HIV-to-HIV kidney transplant donors are doing well, including Nina Martinez, the first U.S. person living with HIV to donate a kidney to another person with HIV.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine and three collaborating medical institutions suggest that people living with HIV who donate a kidney to other people living with HIV have a low risk for developing end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) or other kidney problems in the years following the