World Kidney Day: Black community receives funding to tackle health inequalities in organ and blood donation
WORLD KIDNEY DAY: Those from African and Caribbean communities are less likely to be organ or blood donors (Image via Getty Images)
THE BLACK community is to receive funding this World Kidney Day, as the government sponsors 35 community projects.
The projects have been granted a share of £600,000 which is to be distributed across black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities in the hopes of addressing the lack of organ donation in the community, particularly among kidney donors.
Funding is also expected to be used to increase blood donation in the black community, which can help treat patients with sickle cell.