The American Kidney Fund (AKF) has launched “Kidney Health for All,” a new website aimed at improving health equity, particularly among underrepresented groups. The website will educate users on health equity, race, and kidney disease, while also expanding the reach of AKF’s various health equity initiatives.
The key focus areas of this initiative include the promotion of greater diversity in trials, materially raising awareness of home dialysis, and removing difficulties to transplantation among historically marginalized populations.
According to LaVarne A. Burton, president and CEO of AKF, health disparities and inequities in health care “have had an immeasurably devastating impact on the kidney community.”
The launch of the website is particularly timely given that March is National Kidney Month and March 9 is World Kidney Day.
AKF’s new health equity website can be accessed here.
