European Kidney Forum 2022 – Press release
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Time to improve organ donation and transplantation in Germany! EKHA supports the call from the ProTransplant Alliance
Boris2022-06-04T12:48:28+02:00On the occasion of the German Organ Donation Day on 4 June, EKHA supports the ProTransplant Alliance in calling German policy makers to reverse the worrying trend of organ donation drop in the country. For 15 years, the number of organ transplants in Germany has been falling, while the willingness...
REGISTER NOW ! European Kidney Forum 2022
Boris2022-06-04T11:57:18+02:00On 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, in a hybrid format. This year’s theme will focus on: The Decade of the Kidney™: 10 years to bring innovative and green treatments to kidney patients...
‘I had never heard of kidney failure, I thought I would die’ Read Marion’s story on World Kidney Day
Boris2022-03-10T16:42:02+01:00To mark World Kidney Day, Marion has accepted to share her personal story with EKHA as a kidney transplant patient. Marion was first diagnosed thirty years ago at a time when access to information was scarce. From her dialysis years to the kidney transplant she received and the COVID-19 pandemic,...
The world needs drastically better Kidney Replacement Therapies!
Boris2022-03-10T11:45:36+01:00In 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’ Federation and the American Association of Kidney Patients, we aim to raise awareness about the...
World Kidney Day 2022
Boris2022-03-10T11:46:10+01:00World Kidney Day is a global initiative aimed at raising awareness on the importance of kidney health, and the considerable burden of kidney disease for populations and health systems across the world. More specifically, The objectives of World Kidney Day are to sensitise EU policy makers and the general public...
Wars and kidney patients: a statement by the European Kidney Health Alliance related to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict
Boris2022-03-10T11:46:50+01:00Wars 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. The Russian-Ukrainian conflict is particularly worrying for the kidney community, which requires continuous access to haemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, and a broad array of therapeutics. Kidney...
Healthcare System Resilience Summit: statement and call to action
Boris2022-03-10T11:47:07+01:00The 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 and plan actions to make COVID-19 the catalyst for stronger health systems across the globe. A group of stakeholders, including Prof. Raymond Vanholder, EKHA President,...
EKHA & EKPF open letter ‘Protecting Chronic Kidney Disease patients amid the conflict in Ukraine’
Boris2022-03-10T11:47:30+01:00In the wake of the escalating conflict in Ukraine, the European Kidney Health Alliance (EKHA) and the European Kidney Patients’ Federation (EKPF) published an open letter to Ms Stella Kyriakides, EU Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Mr Janez Lenarčič, EU Commissioner for Crisis Management, and Ms Mariya Gabriel, EU...
Tackling Chronic Kidney Disease at European level : Recommendations to the EU French Presidency
Boris2022-02-07T12:58:52+01:00Today 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,...