HIV-positive mother in South Africa donates liver to critically ill child

Thursday, October 4, 2018 - 13:30 in Health & Medicine

Doctors in South Africa say they transplanted part of a liver from a mother with HIV to her critically ill but HIV-negative child, concluding that the chance to save a life outweighed the risk of virus transmission.

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