On the 19th of April, EKHA attended the Chronic Disease conference organised by the European Commission "Towards better prevention and management of chronic diseases". This multi-stakeholder event, which attracted many actors of the European sphere but also players related to the health field at national level, was the...
On the 14th of April, the UK kidney community launched the first “UK Renal Research Stategy”, a comprehensive document identifying the main challenges, defining goals and providing recommendations on improving the health and life of kidney patients through fostering kidney research. It provides for four strategic aims: Increase engagement...
Ahead of the 2016 World Health Day (7th of April) which focuses on diabetes for this year edition, the World Health Organisation released today its Global report on diabetes, calling on national governments and civil society to accelerate action to fight against the alarming rise in diabetes...
On the occasion of the 2016 World Kidney Day (10th March), the Dutch National Foundation has launched a Salt Campaign in the Netherlands to raise awareness on the need to reduce salt intake in food, as part of the overall goal of adopting healthy...
The Turkish Society of Nephrology together with the Ministry of Health has launched the Chronic Kidney Disease Control Program in Turkey. With the overall aim of improving early detection of chronic kidney disease, the programme is structured around two main objectives: • As a first step, the CKD-Epi formula...
European Commission’s Directorate General for Health (DG SANTE) launched in February 2016 the preparatory action SciView to assess scientific evidence and define policy guidelines for more effective action to tackle nutrition and physical activity-related health challenges; and help prevent non-communicable diseases, with the goal of “gathering evidence for a healthier...
In the framework of EU “Action Plan on organ donation and transplantation (2009-2015): Strengthened Cooperation between Member States”, nominated experts from national competent authorities members of the Working Group on Living Donation have developed a comprehensive toolbox aimed at providing reference guidance to EU Member States on living organ donation...
On the occasion of the World Kidney Day (10th of March) and in line with their MEP Group for Kidney Health memberships, MEP Karin Kadenbach (AT, S&D), MEP Aldo Patriciello (IT, EPP) and MEP Annie Schreijer-Pierik (NL, EPP) published articles in The Parliament Magazine - a political magazine highly...
The 2016 World Kidney Day campaign draws attention to prevention. It builds on the “Move Your Feet” campaign to raise awareness on Kidney Disease and encourage people to make healthy lifestyle choices. With a similar focus, the EU Kidney Forum, to be convened by EKHA on the 19th...
Today, MEPs gathering for the March plenary session in Strasbourg adopted a draft new regulation increasing budgets for school milk, fruits and vegetables schemes and promoting better eating habits for children. The text, which had been agreed with EU Member States’ responsible Ministers in December 2015, provides for the merging of...
