Showing posts with label South Africa; Medicine; Organ Donation; HIV Status. Show all posts
Showing posts with label South Africa; Medicine; Organ Donation; HIV Status. Show all posts

Thursday, October 04, 2018

HIV-Positive Mother Donates Liver To Save Her Child’s Life

South Africa has the world's largest HIV treatment programme
Faced with the only chance to save a child's life, doctors in South Africa have performed a medical first -- transplanting part of the liver from a HIV-positive mother to her HIV-negative child, it was announced Thursday.
The doctors at the University of Witwatersrand reveal one year after the operation, the child may not have caught the virus from her new liver