Today EKHA is launching a set of recommendations to tackle Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) at EU level together with its partners: the French nephrology and patient societies: Société Francophone de Néphrologie, Dialyse et Transplantation (SFNDT), France Rein, and Renaloo. The Ministerial Conference on the Resilience of Health Systems to Support Cooperation on a European Scale,...
Prof Raymond Vanholder, European Kidney Health Alliance (EKHA) President, was interviewed for the LIFE 2021 Nephrology Congress. Prof Vanholder presented EKHA’s publication “Fighting the unbearable lightness of neglecting kidney health: the Decade of the Kidney™”, which discusses the unawareness of kidney disease outside the nephrology community and calls...
The European Kidney Patients' Federation (EKPF) new publication 'Living better with CKD - improving the quality of life of CKD patients on dialysis across Europe' discusses the devastating impact of advanced stage kidney disease on the quality of life of patients. In doing so, it provides three recommendations to European...
In 2021, the European Kidney Forum (EKF) addressed the topic of ‘Unmet needs & challenges in access to treatments in Europe: The case of Chronic Kidney Disease’. The event brought together EU policymakers, academics, patient groups and healthcare professionals to discuss practical and forward-looking policy solutions to enhance the availability...
A new article by Prof. Raymond Vanholder, EKHA’s President, and Prof. Norbert Lameire, former EKHA’s Chairman, reviews correlations between health literacy (HL) levels in patients with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and patient’s outcomes. HL is an important aspect of the lives of CKD patients because of the complexity of self-care...
In the fall of 2020, major global kidney disease organisations met at the first ‘International Home Dialysis Roundtable’ (IHDR) to discuss ways to increase access to and uptake of home dialysis, both peritoneal dialysis and home hemodialysis. COVID-19 shed light on the urgency to increase the access to home dialysis. Kidney...
Brussels, June 21st 2021 Last Friday, on June 18th, the European Kidney Health Alliance (EKHA) and the MEP Group for Kidney Health hosted the 2021 European Kidney Forum ‘Unmet needs & challenges in access to treatments in Europe: The case of Chronic Kidney Disease’. The Forum was introduced by EU Commissioner for...
Although Europe is a leader in organ donation and transplantation, compared to other continents, major discrepancies remain between countries in terms of transplantation activity. This Roadmap, was produced by the EKHA-led Thematic Network on Organ Donation and Transplantation and is based on the Joint Statement on the same subject, published...
The 2021 European Kidney Forum will take place on the 18th June 2021 from 10:30 to 12:00 CEST. The MEP Group for Kidney Health and the European Kidney Health Alliance (EKHA) look forward to the insightful discussions that will emerge from the theme “Unmet needs & challenges in access to...
The final edition of the Vascular Access Handbook For People With Kidney Disease, endorsed by EKHA, is now available on the Spanish Multidisciplinary Vascular Access Group (GEMAV) website. This Handbook, written by GEMAV in collaboration with the Spanish National Federation of Associations for the Fight Against Kidney Diseases (ALCER) and...
