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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...

REGISTER NOW ! European Kidney Forum 2022

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,...

‘I had never heard of kidney failure, I thought I would die’ Read Marion’s story on World Kidney Day

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...

The world needs drastically better Kidney Replacement Therapies!

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’...

World Kidney Day 2022

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...

Wars and kidney patients: a statement by the European Kidney Health Alliance related to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict

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....