The little girl was saved with a liver transplant taken from an HIV-infected donor. For the first time in history, the doctors decided on a transplant because of time searching for other more suitable bodies were gone.
In a desperate attempt to save the life of his dying daughter, HIV-positive mother from South Africa was forced to make a difficult decision. She had to either watch the slow extinction of the girls, waiting for a donor organ, or to donate my liver, and thus infect the child with HIV. Naturally, in the second case, the chances of the girls would be much higher, since taking highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) helps HIV-infected patients to live for decades and grow old. However, they need daily to drink these tablets, but not in all countries they are freely available.
Note that in South Africa about 7 million people are HIV-positive, but the authorities of this country are funding one of the most effective in its availability of HAART programs. Thanks to her, many South Africans can live long and healthy lives, and their organs are suitable for transplant. Magicforum reminds that in the world there is a severe shortage of donor organs, due to which tens and hundreds of thousands of patients do not survive to operations. That is why the authorities of many countries consider the issue of lifting restrictions on transplanting organs from HIV-infected patients.
The liver of the mother was the most suitable for transplant to a little girl who otherwise had little time for waiting. Little, a resident of Johannesburg died from liver failure, but now her health was on the mend, and the girl is already taking HAART to suppress HIV. (READ MORE)