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Eurotransplant to Award a young researcher with the ‘Eurotrans-plant Jon van Rood Award
20 September 2018For the first time, Eurotransplant, the international collaborative platform gathering all transplant hospitals, tissue-typing laboratories and hospitals where organ donations take place in Europe, will...
Celebrating the European Organ Donation Day (EODD)
18 September 2018Scheduled on 13 October, the event will take place in Chisinau, Republic of Moldova, the hosting country for the EODD this year. In view of...
German Health Minister Calls for Opt-out Organ Donation
6 September 2018The European Kidney Health Alliance (EKHA) supports the statement of German Health Minister Jens Spahn, who Monday said he thinks Germany should adopt an opt-out...
Italy and Spain Achieve First International Cross-Kidney Transplantation
5 September 2018Italy 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),...
Gift Of Life Campaign Advocacy Guidance for National Members
20 July 2018EKHA has developed tailored advocacy campaign guidance here to help our network get involved with and disseminate the key messages of the Gift of Life...
Prevention is better than cure
17 July 2018Just a couple of months after it launched its new Best Practices Portal, the European Commission announces the creation of a Steering Group on Promotion and Prevention....
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs): Has progress been made on the SDGs?
12 July 2018Heads of State and Government from around the world will take stock and make recommendations on this issue as part of the third UN High-level Meeting...
CKD care: a changing landscape
7 July 2018Given 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...
Boosting transplantation: a priority to lower the economic burden of renal care
21 June 2018EKHA 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...
EuDonOrgan: Six European Countries will Organize Awareness Raising events on Organ Donation
20 June 2018As part of the EuDonOrgan project 6 EU countries were selected to host awareness raising events to foster an organ donation culture nationally and in...
