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The transplantation of solid organs from HIV-positive donors to HIV-negative recipients: ethical implications
- Source :
- Journal of medical ethics. 41(5)
- Publication Year :
- 2014
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Abstract
- HIV-positive individuals have traditionally been barred from donating organs due to transmission concerns, but this barrier may soon be lifted in the USA in limited settings when recipients are also infected with HIV. Recipients of livers and kidneys with well-controlled HIV infection have been shown to have similar outcomes to those without HIV, erasing ethical concerns about poorly chosen beneficiaries of precious organs. But the question of whether HIV-negative patients should be disallowed from receiving an organ from an HIV-positive donor has not been adequately explored. In this essay, we will discuss the background to this scenario and the ethical implications of its adoption from the perspectives of autonomy, beneficence/non-maleficence and justice.
- Subjects :
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Health (social science)
media_common.quotation_subject
education
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
Blood Donors
medicine.disease_cause
Risk Assessment
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)
Social Justice
Antiretroviral Therapy, Highly Active
HIV Seronegativity
HIV Seropositivity
medicine
Humans
Justice (ethics)
Intensive care medicine
Reproductive health
media_common
business.industry
Transmission (medicine)
United States Food and Drug Administration
Health Policy
Beneficence
virus diseases
Homosexuality
Organ Transplantation
medicine.disease
Hepatitis C
Kidney Transplantation
United States
Liver Transplantation
Transplantation
Issues, ethics and legal aspects
Immunology
Personal Autonomy
business
Autonomy
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14734257
- Volume :
- 41
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of medical ethics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a3ed5e743817f1a831c22d6b90d6399d