In this photo provided by Johns Hopkins Medicine, Dr. Dorry Segev, right, performs the first U.S.
transplant of a kidney from a deceased donor who had HIV into a recipient living with HIV, in Baltimore, in March 2016. People with HIV can safely receive donated kidneys from deceased donors with the virus, according to a large study that comes as the U.S.
government moves to expand the practice. That could shorten the wait for organs for all, regardless of HIV status..