Gokool, S;
Fabian, J;
Venter, WDF;
MacPhail, C;
Naicker, S;
(2010)
HIV-positive kidney transplants for HIV-positive individuals: Attitudes and concerns of South African patients and health care workers.
South African Medical Journal
, 100
(2)
96 - 98.
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Abstract
In South Africa, an estimated 30% of the cadaveric donor pool is HIV-infected; in consequence, these organs are discarded. An undersupply of donor organs combined with limited resources tends to exclude HIV-positive patients from renal replacement programmes. We evaluated the acceptance of using HIV-positive donor kidneys for transplantation into HIV-infected recipients, and found that the vast majority (90% of health care workers and 80% of patients,N=20 and 80, respectively) found this approach acceptable for expanding the organ donor pool, which indicates broad patient and health care worker support for using HIV-infected donor kidneys.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | HIV-positive kidney transplants for HIV-positive individuals: Attitudes and concerns of South African patients and health care workers |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
Publisher version: | http://www.samj.org.za/index.php/samj/article/view... |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | Work published in the SAMJ is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution - Noncommercial 3.0 Unported Works License (CC BY-NC 3.0). |
Keywords: | Survival |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1308112 |
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