Organ match.

• Position: Stateline - Brief Article

Illinois is the first state to allow HIV-positive people to donate organs to other people living with HIV. Under current federal guidelines, organs from HIV-positive patients are discarded to prevent them from being transplanted to uninfected patients. The new law can "save many lives" of HIV-positive people waiting for transplants, who under federal regulations have been barred from receiving transplants from other HIV-positive people, says...