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Last year, the National Kidney Foundation launched Kidney Health for Life, a campaign focused on educating and targeting the high rate of kidney disease among the Black, Asian and Latino populations.
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Quin Taylor grew up watching her dad receive dialysis and live, miraculously, for 15 years after he received a kidney transplant. She had no idea that she, too, would get a new kidney 11 years later.
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NephCure Kidney International and HEAL Collaborative Partner to Launch Health Equity Initiative
Initiative seeks to create interventions to prevent kidney failure and improve access to kidney disease research, care for communities of color
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KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa., March 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Today, NephCure Kidney International (NephCure) announced the formal launch of its Health Equity Initiative, focused on addressing access to research and care for diverse families living with chronic, protein-spilling kidney diseases, together with the Health Education Advocacy and Learning, Inc. (HEAL Collaborative) not-for-profit organization.
The goal of this initiative is to improve patient outcomes by identifying solutions to strengthen the participation of underrepresented individuals in the kidney disease patient and medical arena. The initial focus will be on kidney disease in Black Americans, given the prevalence of Chroni