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HIV-positive mother donates liver to save her child's life

Doctors in South Africa have performed a medical first, transplanting part of the liver from a HIV-positive mother into her HIV-negative child, this was the only chance they had to save the child’s life.

 In a story done by AFP, the University of Witwatersrand doctors revealed that one year after the operation, the child may not have caught the virus from her new liver.

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