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

BRAAMFONTEIN – Miracle transplant leaves the world in awe.

October 6, 2018

Andile Dlodlo Less than a minute

Professor Jean Botha is director of transplantation at Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre which has successfully performed the world's first HIV positive to HIV negative organ 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: