On November 1, 2007, the organ procurement organization, Gift of Hope, notified the transplant centers that one of the recipients had HIV and hepatitis C.

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As the "host organ procurement organization, " LifeQuest was responsible for the quality of the organs it offered when it posted their availability on a national database maintained by the United Network for Organ Sharing.

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These changes seem to have resulted in a reduction in organ availability, according to the World Health Organization's Dr. Luc Noel, and they may have contributed to the failure of Kevin Scott's family ( click here for story) to get a liver in time to save him.

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