South Africa is renowned for medical breakthroughs and medical pioneers. We all know about the first heart transplant by Dr. Chris Barnard in 1967, but the country can also lay claim to performing the world’s first bilateral sequential lung transplant, the world’s first non-surgical closure of a leaking heart valve, the first successful penis transplant, and recently the world’s first successful liver transplant from an HIV-positive mother to her critically ill HIV-negative child. The beauty
