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.

AKF was honored to be Pittsburgh Steelers Pressley Harvin III's chosen charity for the My Cause My Cleats campaign, selected to bring awareness to his late...

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 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...

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