HOPE in Action
HOPE in Action
HIV-HIV organ donation & transplantation
 
 

Our Mission:

HOPE.

On November 21, 2013, President Obama signed the HOPE Act.

The HIV-Organ-Policy-Equity Act allows people living with HIV to register--and save lives--as organ donors to people living with HIV on the transplant wait list.

The HOPE Act received broad bipartisan support from Congress. Why? Because HIV+ organ donation is an important step to saving more lives. With 20+ Americans dying every day, waiting for a transplant, we have to expand the number of people who can be organ donors.

Everyone could agree that expanding HIV-HIV organ donation and transplantation to the U.S. was a good thing.

 

 
 
 
 
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The HOPE in Action team is based at Johns Hopkins University's Epidemiology Research Group in Organ Transplantation.

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1.1m

people living with hiv in the U.S.

According to the CDC, more than 1.1 million Americans are living with HIV.

 

115k

People waiting on transplants

According to the United Network for Organ Sharing, more than 115,000 Americans are waiting on a life-saving organ transplant.

 
 

3+

potential Lives saved by an hiv+ organ donor

Right now, an HIV+ organ donor can save 3 lives through kidney and liver transplants, and impact thousands more through increasing the overall number of transplants. More transplants = more lives saved, for all patients HIV- and HIV+.

 
 

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July 2017

"After working hard to pass the HOPE Act in 2013, we are excited to see HOPE reach more communities and save more lives. With hard work, more patients living with HIV will receive the the transplants they need to survive--and thrive."

Dr. Dorry Segev