VIDEO: Wits performs first HIV-positive to HIV-negative liver transplant

Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre performed the world’s first intentional liver transplant from a mother living with HIV to her critically ill HIV negative child.

South Africa has achieved another world first when it comes to organ transplants.

On 4 October the Transplant Unit at the Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre announced that they had successfully and intentionally transplanted a liver from a mother living with HIV to her critically ill HIV negative child last year.

Fast forward a year later and the mother and child have fully recovered, however, doctors are unsure of the HIV-status of the child.

This video explains the details of the transplant:

Video: Courtesy of Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre