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Balancing Act: Chicago couple undergoes state’s first kidney transplant between HIV-positive patients. ‘They are really pioneers’ Heidi Stevens, Chicago Tribune © Stacey Wescott/TNS Al Morales counts off his kidney transplant medication at his home on April 11, 2021, in Chicago. Al Morales learned he needed a new kidney in late 2017. He had a seizure around Halloween that year that left him blind in one eye, and a series of tests revealed chronic kidney disease. “At this point I was thinking I’m out of hope,” Morales, 49, said. “Who’s going to donate a kidney to me?” Around 5,000 people die each year waiting for a kidney transplant, according to the Living Kidney Donors Network. The list of people waiting for a donated kidney has around 100,000 names on it at any given time.

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