In Absence of Evidence Film

A documentary film on the world’s first hiv to hiv transplants 🇿🇦🇺🇸📽️🎞️Directed by: @_komalkumar produced by: @marganina

[In Absence of Evidence Film @iaoefilm]

#inabsenceofevidencefilm #hivtohivtransplantation #pioneer #thehopeact #hopetransplants #southafrica #capetown #blooddonor #tissuedonor #organdonor

[Nina Martínez @marganina]

🥹😭 Welcome to the standard of clinical care in transplantation club for people with HIV, @UNC_Health_Care #HOPEtransplants
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[Nina Martínez @marganina]

Happy HOPE Act enactment anniversary, @BarackObama. #ThanksObama https://t.co/R2LBZrRLG7

[Nina Martínez @marganina]

I'm not Frances Borchelt, BUT on this day in 1983, I was at Letterman Army Medical Center in San Francisco (now a Yoda statue marks the spot) receiving blood from Irwin Memorial Blood Bank (now Blood Centers of the Pacific - Irwin Center).

42 yrs. Blood recipient -> kidney donor

[Nina Martínez @marganina]

42 years with this retrovirus 🧁. Thanks (8 years late but better than never) screening, thanks drugs, thanks my pedsID docs, my adultID docs, my gynecologist, dermatologist, endocrinologist, cardiologist, and 22 years of research docs.

Not a cake walk but there is always cake.

[Nina Martínez @marganina]

In @bmj_latest: https://t.co/zSa1niEzp4

[Abigail Marsh @aa_marsh]

Thanks to the tireless advocacy of @marganina and others working on the HIV Organ Policy Equity Act (HOPE Act), people who are HIV+ can now donate organs to other HIV+ people, expanding the US organ supply. https://t.co/q3Xkx93hIl

[Nina Martínez @marganina]

Ms. Ralph asked, and I answered. Today is the day it is happening! https://t.co/y02btJQYmB

[Nina Martínez @marganina]

It's 12:30am on June 26, 2025 and kidney and liver transplants from donors with HIV to recipients with HIV are now standard of clinical care in the United States. https://t.co/bNfHxYXMjC

[In Absence of Evidence Film @iaoefilm]

Advocate @marganina breaks down new OPTN rules ending the “research-only” label for HIV+ organ donations, a move aimed at equity and saving lives.

https://t.co/3RZznNgfjS

[In Absence of Evidence Film @iaoefilm]

HIV-positive organ rules updated nationwide

#thehopeact #donatelife #scienceoverstigma #hopetransplants

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[Nina Martínez @marganina]

Very brave of me to agree to a Monday 9am live spot the day after my bday. Here I am on @11AliveNews' streaming app program "The Take" w Chesley McNeil talking about the forthcoming OPTN policy changes coming Thursday, June 26. #HOPEtransplants #DonateLife https://t.co/bNfHxYXMjC

[Nina Martínez @marganina]

We were so overdue on updating y'all on our film progress. It's a minor snag in a world full of, quite frankly, major ones. Particularly bc of that, I remain a believer of keeping focused and changing the things we can.

Join us in changing the world.
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[Nina Martínez @marganina]

On #WorldKidneyDay today, it's important to highlight that kidney transplants are safe and effective between people with HIV, utilizing living or deceased donors, thanks in part to the HIV Organ Policy Equity Act of 2013 in the United States and in larger part to decades (1/5)

[Nina Martínez @marganina]

Amazing news for #WorldAIDSDay from Spain 🇪🇸, expressing their desire to repeal a rule that prohibits organ transplants between people with HIV.
https://t.co/dXow1K47Xj

[Nina Martínez @marganina]

Biden–Harris Administration Expands Access to Life-Saving Organ Transplants Through HOPE Act Reform https://t.co/5PrZMI532N

[Nina Martínez @marganina]

I know that's right. Donate my remaining kidney to CNN. https://t.co/MHqZ6aIZAT

[In Absence of Evidence Film @iaoefilm]

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[In Absence of Evidence Film @iaoefilm]

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[Nina Martínez @marganina]

How much do y'all love kidneys, #NephTwitter? Like really love them? Don't you just wish they would transplant all the kidneys? I know @4_kidney does. That's why he's riding the final 545 mi AIDSLifeCycle journey from SF to LA next year to bring awareness https://t.co/ypUSIJgSOr

[Komal Kumar, MPH @_komalkumar]

Consider supporting Dr. Sutha @4_kidney a two-time kidney transplant recipient as he takes on a 545-mile bike ride from SF to LA!

https://t.co/ejkeJwr5ev