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Educating Congress Virtually This Week!

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Health systems, social systems, and environmental factors,

Healthcare system navigation and patient advocacy,

Policy and legislation,

Patient advocacy

Remembering Congressman John Lewis, Kidney Champion

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Health systems, social systems, and environmental factors,

Healthcare system navigation and patient advocacy,

Patient advocacy

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...

Diseases and conditions,

Health systems, social systems, and environmental factors,

Infectious diseases,

Healthcare quality, access, and evaluation,

Healthcare system navigation and patient advocacy,

Patient advocacy

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...

Diseases and conditions,

Health systems, social systems, and environmental factors,

Infectious diseases,

Healthcare system navigation and patient advocacy,

Healthcare quality, access, and evaluation,

Patient advocacy,

Race and ethnicity

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...

Health systems, social systems, and environmental factors,

Diseases and conditions,

Infectious diseases,

Healthcare system navigation and patient advocacy,

Kidney diseases and conditions,

Patient advocacy,

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...

Diseases and conditions,

Health systems, social systems, and environmental factors,

Infectious diseases,

Healthcare system navigation and patient advocacy,

Patient advocacy

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

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Diseases and conditions,

Health systems, social systems, and environmental factors,

Infectious diseases,

Kidney diseases and conditions,

Healthcare system navigation and patient advocacy,

Acute kidney injury,

Patient advocacy

Kidney X Challenge fuels and funds patient innovation

This information will help you learn more about kidney health.

Health systems, social systems, and environmental factors,

Healthcare system navigation and patient advocacy,

Patient advocacy

NKF Applauds Administration’s Focus on Kidney Health

This information will help you learn more about kidney health.

Health systems, social systems, and environmental factors,

Healthcare system navigation and patient advocacy,

Patient advocacy

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...

Diseases and conditions,

Organ and tissue transplantation and donation,

Health systems, social systems, and environmental factors,

Kidney diseases and conditions,

Organ donation,

Healthcare system navigation and patient advocacy,

Kidney failure,

Patient advocacy