HI SR22

Requests health care facilities and providers in Hawaii to perform organ transplants on patients with HIV, ARC (AIDS-related complex), and AIDS.

Cites medical advances since the late 1990s, including potent combination antiretroviral therapy, that have substantially improved survival rates for HIV-positive patients to match non-HIV-positive transplant recipients.

References a November 2011 New England Journal of Medicine article and Mayo Clinic evidence indicating no increased risk of opportunistic infections or HIV acceleration in immunosuppressed HIV-positive transplant patients.

Directs the Department of Health to transmit the resolution to all health care facilities in Hawaii and the Hawaii Medical Board to transmit it to all licensed health care providers under Hawaii Revised Statutes chapter 453.