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Read EKHA’s new paper looking into the effects of massive disaster on kidney transplantation

EKHA released a Consensus Statement together with the DESCARTES Working Group and the Ethics Committee of the European Renal Association (ERA), analyzing the effects of...

EDTNA/ERCA published new recommendations for Sustainable Kidney Care and Green Dialysis

EDTNA/ERCA published a new set of recommendations for improving sustainable kidney care and providing support to patients and healthcare providers to decrease the environmental impact...

Read EKHA’s new article on armed conflicts and kidney patients

EKHA recently published an article discussing the effects armed conflicts have on kidney patients. The article highlights the unique challenges armed conflicts present to patients...

Read EKHA’s new article: Green Nephrology

A new EKHA article raises awareness of the environmental burden of nephrology, and the need for a change in mentality. One of the most important...

The European Kidney Health Alliance (EKHA) and the Decade of the Kidney™

This article describes the history of EKHA, its activities and aims, and why EKHA joined the Decade of the Kidney™. The article also covers the...

Continuing kidney care in conflicts

The recent article of EKHA looks into the devastating effect of the Ukrainian conflict on people with kidney disease. Wars especially endanger patients with kidney...

EDTAKI: a Nephrology and Public Policy Committee platform call for more European involvement in acute kidney injury

In this article, EKHA analyses the current position of European nephrology in the field of Acute Kidney Injury (AKI). The results suggest that there is...

Future Directions for Dialysis

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...

New EKHA publication: The European Green Deal and nephrology: a call for action by the European Kidney Health Alliance (EKHA)

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...

EKHA signs a Joint statement on the need for improved protection for immunocompromised patients

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...

European Kidney Forum 2022 – Press release

You can read here the press release here.

Time to improve organ donation and transplantation in Germany! EKHA supports the call from the ProTransplant Alliance

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...