Hope for kidney transplantation in candidates with human immunodeficiency virus
Amer Ashaab Belal, Rafael Aldaya Bourricaudy, Zahra Saba, Saba Ali, Issa Haddad, Alfonso H Santos · 2026
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Description
Belal and co-authors review how kidney transplantation opened up for people living with HIV, and what clinicians should weigh now that the rules have changed. A transplant beats dialysis for survival in end-stage kidney disease, yet patients with HIV long faced extra barriers to the waiting list. The HOPE Act of 2013 first allowed organs from donors with HIV to go to recipients with HIV inside research studies. Federal changes in 2024 and 2025 then made this standard care at approved centers.
Drawing on the studies run under the HOPE framework, the review walks through how to assess candidates with HIV and how to manage their care after transplant. The authors expect wider access as centers adopt the new rules. They write to build comfort among clinicians and patients in this new era. For transplant teams, the paper gathers the evidence and the special considerations in one place.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Amer Ashaab Belal, Rafael Aldaya Bourricaudy, Zahra Saba, Saba Ali, Issa Haddad, Alfonso H Santos |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 34 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |