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Healthcare System Resilience Summit: statement and call to action
4 March 2022The Healthcare System Resilience Summit, held at the World Expo in Dubai on 30-31 January 2022, convened leaders from across the globe to share learnings...
EKHA & EKPF open letter ‘Protecting Chronic Kidney Disease patients amid the conflict in Ukraine’
2 March 2022In the wake of the escalating conflict in Ukraine, the European Kidney Health Alliance (EKHA) and the European Kidney Patients’ Federation (EKPF) published an open...
Tackling Chronic Kidney Disease at European level : Recommendations to the EU French Presidency
19 January 2022Today 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...
Interview with Prof Raymond Vanholder, EKHA President: LIFE 2021 Nephrology Congress
3 November 2021Prof 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...
Living better with CKD – improving the quality of life of CKD patients on dialysis across Europe
3 November 2021The European Kidney Patients' Federation (EKPF) new publication 'Living better with CKD - improving the quality of life of CKD patients on dialysis across Europe'...
European Kidney Forum 2021’s video and report are now available!
21 October 2021In 2021, the European Kidney Forum (EKF) addressed the topic of ‘Unmet needs & challenges in access to treatments in Europe: The case of Chronic...
Health literacy problems of kidney patients
9 August 2021A 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...
Expanding Utilization of Home Dialysis: An Action Agenda From the First International Home Dialysis Roundtable
23 June 2021In the fall of 2020, major global kidney disease organisations met at the first ‘International Home Dialysis Roundtable’ (IHDR) to discuss ways to increase access...
Press release: 2021 European Kidney Forum: Unmet needs and challenges in access to treatments in Europe: The case of Chronic Kidney Disease Brussels
21 June 2021Brussels, June 21st 2021 Last Friday, on June 18th, the European Kidney Health Alliance (EKHA) and the MEP Group for Kidney Health hosted the 2021...
Roadmap for Organ donation and transplantation: a multi- stakeholder call to action
21 May 2021Although Europe is a leader in organ donation and transplantation, compared to other continents, major discrepancies remain between countries in terms of transplantation activity. This...
