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HI SCR58
Concurrent Resolution
Status
3/1/2012
Primary Sponsor
William Espero
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AI Summary
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Requests health care facilities and providers in Hawaii to perform organ transplantation on patients with HIV, ARC, and AIDS
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Notes that modern antiretroviral therapy has substantially improved survival rates for HIV-positive patients, making them comparable to HIV-negative transplant recipients
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References medical evidence including a November 2011 New England Journal of Medicine article and Mayo Clinic's successful kidney and pancreas transplant program for HIV-positive patients
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Directs the Department of Health to transmit the resolution to all health care facilities in Hawaii
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Directs the Hawaii Medical Board to transmit the resolution to all persons licensed under chapter 453, Hawaii Revised Statutes
Legislative Description
Anatomical Transplants; AIDS
Last Action
(S) The committee on HTH deferred the measure.
3/19/2012