Who cannot be an organ donor in us?

Criteria: Transplant professionals will evaluate the condition of your organs at the time of your death and determine if your organs are suitable for donation. You should consider yourself a potential organ and tissue donor, indicate your intent to donate on your driver's license, donor card, or state donor registry, and discuss your decision with family members.

HIV + cannot: At this time it is illegal in the us for an HIV + person's organs to be donated for transplantation. However, the american society of transplant surgeons (asts) and other professional organizations are trying to get legislators to make a change based on the successful principle demonstrated by using hepatitis c infected donor organs for hepatitis c infected recipients - to ease the organ shortage.