Kidney Today Blog

AKF is proud to launch the next step of the UCKD Project: the UCKD Coalition, which is comprised of 15 organizations and individuals who will work together to s...

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.

With the passage of living donor protection laws in eight states, the national average on AKF's State of the States Living Donor Protection Report Card was...

AKF recently responded to an RFI from CMS about how CMS can improve the organ donation and transplantation processes, the quality of dialysis care and ways to a...

Welcome to our "What's happening in the states" blog series, where we provide monthly legislative updates on what the American Kidney Fund (AKF) ...

During AKF's 2018 Advocacy Day on Capitol Hill, 24 people with kidney disease, their caregivers and their loved ones from 14 states shared their stories wi...