(New Haven Register) HIV-positive patients will now be able to receive transplanted organs from HIV-positive donors at Yale New Haven Hospital.
The hospital is one of eight transplant centers to receive approval from the United Network for Organ Sharing to accept organs that are from HIV-positive donors, as a result of the 2013 HIV Organ Policy Equity Act.
Such transplants were illegal in the United States before the HOPE Act’s passage, although they have been done in South Africa, according to a Yale New Haven press release.