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Your voice: Making the needs of kidney patients a priority during the COVID-19 pandemic

Since the start of the pandemic, National Kidney Foundation staff and volunteers have been working around the clock in partnership with government off...

Patient advocacy,

Healthcare quality, access, and evaluation,

Healthcare system navigation and patient advocacy,

Infectious diseases,

Diseases and conditions,

Health systems, social systems, and environmental factors

Initiating important conversations: Addressing COVID-19's impact on communities of color

With your support, we're working to eliminate healthcare disparities. In partnership with the NAACP, NKF hosted a Q&A webinar to address the latest up...

Patient advocacy,

Race and ethnicity,

Healthcare quality, access, and evaluation,

Healthcare system navigation and patient advocacy,

Infectious diseases,

Diseases and conditions,

Health systems, social systems, and environmental factors

Patients Share their Hospital Experiences during COVID-19

Recently, we both had to visit our local medical facilities. For most people this might be concerning, however for transplant recipients like us it wa...

Patient advocacy,

Healthcare system navigation and patient advocacy,

Infectious diseases,

Kidney diseases and conditions,

Diseases and conditions,

Health systems, social systems, and environmental factors

Patient Perspectives on Managing Routine Blood Tests during COVID-19

By Risa Simon, NKF patient advocate and founder of The Proactive Path and Transplantfirst Academy; and Michael Stevenson, NKF National Board Member an...

Patient advocacy,

Healthcare system navigation and patient advocacy,

Infectious diseases,

Diseases and conditions,

Health systems, social systems, and environmental factors

Sounding the Alarm, Acute Kidney Injury, and Asking the Experts

This information will help you learn more about kidney health.

Acute kidney injury,

Patient advocacy,

Healthcare system navigation and patient advocacy,

Infectious diseases,

Kidney diseases and conditions,

Diseases and conditions,

Health systems, social systems, and environmental factors

Kidney X Challenge fuels and funds patient innovation

This information will help you learn more about kidney health.

Patient advocacy,

Healthcare system navigation and patient advocacy,

Health systems, social systems, and environmental factors,

NKF Applauds Administration’s Focus on Kidney Health

This information will help you learn more about kidney health.

Patient advocacy,

Healthcare system navigation and patient advocacy,

Health systems, social systems, and environmental factors

A Woman Waiting for a Kidney Shares Her Story and Helps Others in the Process

When Anne Bina found out that her kidneys were failing three decades after a childhood strep infection had weakened them, her first instinct was to ke...

Kidney failure,

Patient advocacy,

Healthcare system navigation and patient advocacy,

Kidney diseases and conditions,

Organ donation,

Diseases and conditions,

Health systems, social systems, and environmental factors,

Organ and tissue transplantation and donation

7 Tips for Dating with Kidney Disease

Health diagnosis or not, dating isn’t easy. In many situations, talking about a health or personal issue can feel challenging or cause anxiety.

Patient advocacy,

Children and adolescents,

Healthcare system navigation and patient advocacy,

People at risk,

Health systems, social systems, and environmental factors,

Everybody Needs an Avocado

My mom sat down next to me at her kitchen table. “I want to do this,” she said.   “Holy sh*t, Mom.” I thought of the thousands of convers...

Patient advocacy,

Healthcare system navigation and patient advocacy,

Kidney transplantation,

Health systems, social systems, and environmental factors,

Organ and tissue transplantation and donation