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Italy and Spain Achieve First International Cross-Kidney Transplantation

Italy and Spain recently successfully transplanted two patients, the first in Pisa and the second in Barcelona by undertaking an international cross-kidney transplantation chain (the so-called "cross over" program), involving two non-compatible donor-recipient pairs from Barcelona and Pisa. This success was made possible thanks to the South Alliance for Transplant (SAT), an international agreement involving Spain, France,...

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Gift Of Life Campaign Advocacy Guidance for National Members

EKHA has developed tailored advocacy campaign guidance here to help our network get involved with and disseminate the key messages of the Gift of Life campaign to improve access to transplantation in Europe.   Given that hospital-based dialysis can cost as much as 80K€ per patient per year, that 1 in...

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CKD care: a changing landscape

Given that 2% to 3% of health expenditure in most European countries is absorbed by patients on dialysis who represent just a small fraction (0.1%–0.2%) of the general population…it is admitted that a shift is needed to ensure appropriate treatment for CKD patients in the long run through cost-effective renal replacement therapies such as transplantation...

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Boosting transplantation: a priority to lower the economic burden of renal care

EKHA welcomes the recent announcement of the health priorities of the upcoming Romanian Presidency of the Council of the EU (starting January 2019) in so far as they reflect an intention from the future Presidency to boost organ donation in Europe: a document* freshly released from the Presidency outlines under the overall aim of “guaranteeing access to...

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EuDonOrgan: Six European Countries will Organize Awareness Raising events on Organ Donation

As part of the EuDonOrgan project 6 EU countries were selected to host awareness raising events to foster an organ donation culture nationally and in neighboring countries. EuDonORgan is a 36-month multi-country EU funded project to boost organ donation. Belgium, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Portugal and Sweden are selected to organise activities between Autumn 2018 and Spring 2019. The countries were selected on...

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European Commission Publishes Horizon Europe

On June 7th, the European Commission officially released Horizon Europe, the next EU Research Framework Programme outlining research funding and structure between 2021 and 2027. Calling it the most ambitious and innovation programme yet, the European Commission presented a €100 billion budget for research, up from €77 billion for the current program, with the actual proposal for...

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The EU’s next Research Framework : Horizon Europe

The European Commission is working on the successor of Horizon 2020, the next EU Research Framework Programme which will outline research priorities beyond 2020. A draft version of the framework (dated 11 April), noted that the biggest changes in the next research funding scheme will be the creation of a European...

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