AKF launches health equity website to educate patients, conduct outreach
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Just in time for National Kidney Month, the American Kidney Fund has launched a new website to improve health equity especially among patients from underrepresented groups, according to the press release.
The website is titled “Kidney Health for All” after the theme of this year’s World Kidney Day and is designed to educate users on health equity, race and kidney disease. Additionally, it will serve as a form of outreach while focusing on the main pillars of the health equity initiative from the American Kidney Fund (AKF). These include the goal of increasing diversity in trials, increasing awareness of home dialysis and removing barriers to transplantation among historically underrepresented groups.
“The crisis in kidney disease has continued unabated, and nowhere has it been felt more than in underserved communities,” LaVarne A. Burton, president and CEO of AKF, said in the release. “We must do more collectively to tackle health disparities and inequities in health care, which have had an immeasurably devastating impact in the kidney community. We are grateful to AstraZeneca for its early and continued support of our health equity work, and to all our sponsors, who are helping support a critically important part of our mission to fight kidney disease on all fronts.”
Sponsors of the website include AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Eli Lilly and Company, Travere Therapeutics Inc., Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Equity Sponsor Otsuka America Pharmaceutical Inc. and Merck.
Learn more about the website here: Kidney Health for All | American Kidney Fund.
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