OPTN policy, and related programming, will soon align with 2020 U.S. Public Health Service Guideline for assessing solid organ donors and monitoring transplant recipients for HIV, HBV, and HCV.
New pediatric membership requirements promote transplant recipient safety.
Current policies to remain in effect.
Kidney programs should update candidate data ahead of Dec. 15 final implementation.
This action will follow the OPTN Board of Directors meeting on Dec. 6-7.
UNet users should save all data prior to the downtimes or the data may be permanently lost when the system goes temporarily offline.