Wits doctors perform world’s first ever liver transplant from HIV+ mother to HIV- child

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Channel: SABC News · 2018 · News & Politics

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Doctors at the Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre say they've performed a groundbreaking transplant. They transplanted part of an HIV-positive mother's liver to her HIV-negative child. The 13-month-old child who was in the final stage of liver disease and would have died without the transplant.

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