Should critically ill children accept organs from donors with HIV? This was the dilemma faced by South African doctors, who transplanted liver tissue from a woman with HIV to her child.
This question raises tangled issues of ethics, consent, and the current limits of medical research. In our lead story, the doctors who carried out the transplant explain the complex decision.
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Fundamental questions of ethics are involved in donor transplant decisions.
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Harriet Etheredge, University of the Witwatersrand; Jean Botha, University of the Witwatersrand; June Fabian, University of the Witwatersrand
Doctors in South Africa performed a liver transplant from an HIV-positive donor to a HIV-negative recipient. Major ethical questions came into play.
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