In this article, Prof. Raymond Vanholder, EKHA President, highlights the several drawbacks of dialysis, despite being life-saving for a growing number of kidney patients. Given the important carbon footprint of dialysis, the article presents a number of environment-friendly alternatives that are currently being explored. These proposed options may provide sustainable...
The European Kidney Health Alliance (EKHA) and its president, Prof. Raymond Vanholder, along with other health experts, recently published a paper on the European Green Deal and the interconnection between climate change, kidney health and treatment, and ecology. In the article, physicians, patients, nurses, and biomedical engineers emphasize the importance of...
The European Kidney Health Alliance (EKHA) signed a joint statement on the need for improved protection and prevention for immunocompromised patients in the context of the COVID19 pandemic. In Europe, 14.5 million people are immunocompromised, including patients living with a kidney transplant. Immunocompromised patients are disproportionately threatened by COVID19, and...
You can read here the press release here.
On the occasion of the German Organ Donation Day on 4 June, EKHA supports the ProTransplant Alliance in calling German policy makers to reverse the worrying trend of organ donation drop in the country. For 15 years, the number of organ transplants in Germany has been falling, while the willingness...
On 15 June 2022 from 15:15 to 17:15 CEST, EKHA will host its annual event, the European Kidney Forum, in the European Parliament in Brussels, in a hybrid format. This year’s theme will focus on: The Decade of the Kidney™: 10 years to bring innovative and green treatments to kidney patients...
To mark World Kidney Day, Marion has accepted to share her personal story with EKHA as a kidney transplant patient. Marion was first diagnosed thirty years ago at a time when access to information was scarce. From her dialysis years to the kidney transplant she received and the COVID-19 pandemic,...
In this concise and informative infographic, learn why current Kidney Replacement Therapies (KRT) are inadequate. On World Kidney Day 2022, together with the European Kidney Patients’ Federation and the American Association of Kidney Patients, we aim to raise awareness about the...
World Kidney Day is a global initiative aimed at raising awareness on the importance of kidney health, and the considerable burden of kidney disease for populations and health systems across the world. More specifically, The objectives of World Kidney Day are to sensitise EU policy makers and the general public...
Wars have a serious impact on the life of all diseased people by destroying infrastructure and interfering with possibilities to gain access to life-saving therapies. The Russian-Ukrainian conflict is particularly worrying for the kidney community, which requires continuous access to haemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, and a broad array of therapeutics. Kidney...
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