Access to the Kidney Transplant Waitlist for People With HIV

Brittany A Shelton^{1

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3}, Paul A MacLennan², David J Becker³, Bisakha Sen³, Henna Budhwani⁴, Jayme E Locke²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Public Health, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN.
² Department of Surgery, Heersink School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL.
³ Department of Health Policy and Organization, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL.
⁴ College of Nursing, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL.

Brittany A Shelton et al. Transplantation. 2023.

. 2023 May 1;107(5):e156-e157.

doi: 10.1097/TP.0000000000004549. Epub 2023 Apr 25.

Brittany A Shelton^{1

2

3}, Paul A MacLennan², David J Becker³, Bisakha Sen³, Henna Budhwani⁴, Jayme E Locke²

¹ Department of Public Health, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN.
² Department of Surgery, Heersink School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL.
³ Department of Health Policy and Organization, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL.
⁴ College of Nursing, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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