Kidney Today Blog

Here are just some of the outstanding advocacy achievements AKF accomplished in 2022 thanks to our Government Affairs team and AKF Ambassadors.

Highlights of a very successful year in state advocacy for AKF and our community of kidney disease advocates.

On Oct. 23, more than 60 people convened at Remsen Hall in Brooklyn, New York, for "Living Your Best Life On Dialysis," a day of education and camarad...

For the first time since 2019, AKF hosted our Ambassadors for a day of education and connection called, "D.C. Education Day."

AKF-supported legislation would restore the Medicare Secondary Payer Law

AKF President and CEO LaVarne A. Burton urges Congress to pass the Health Equity and Accountability Act (HEAA) to ensure that all Americans have equitable acces...

The Coordination, Accountability, Research, and Equity (CARE) for All Kidneys Act of 2021 includes numerous provisions to help address the high rates of kidney ...

AKF recently wrote a letter to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) urging them to develop a kidney disease screening recommendation.

An important piece of legislation was signed into law in 2020 giving kidney transplant recipients under 65 immunosuppressive (antirejection) drug coverage for t...