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Finding a living donor can sound scary and overwhelming. Where do you start and what are the best ways to share your story? Here’s advice from two transplant recipients who once stood in your shoes and a transplant social worker: Gisela Delgado, an advocate for living donation; Morgan Reid, Transplant Policy and Strategy with the National Kidney Foundation; and Dori Mench, a post-transplant social worker.
Where to start...
Since the start of state legislative sessions in January, Voices for Kidney Health advocates have worked with lawmakers to pass Living Donor Protection Act (LDPA) legislation in eight new states, prohibiting life, long-term care, and disability insurers in those states from discriminating against living organ donors. Governors in Delaware, Georgia, Florida, Nebraska, Ohio, and Virginia have already signed their LDPAs into law, while LDPA...
As of December 2022, the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) reported more than 89,0001 people on the kidney transplant waitlist. While more than 25,0002 kidney transplants were performed in 2022, thousands still desperately hope for a second chance. Sadly, around twelve people on the list die each day without ever getting that...
NEW—online support system gives patients a platform to connect with each other and access NKF resources.
Good health care is a team effort — especially for transplant recipients. This January, NKF launched its first Facebook group for users who have undergone or will soon undergo a kidney transplant called the NKF Transplant Community.
This private group...
On December 17th, the Administration and Congress took significant steps towards improving kidney disease policy and funding. The National Kidney Foundation applauds these efforts to help the nearly 95,000 Americans waiting on a life-saving kidney transplant.
The Administration announced...
Jen Anderson made a selfless decision when she was nineteen–she donated a kidney to her aunt. Many other young adults may have found organ donation frightening, but for Jen, it was one of the easiest decisions she has ever made. Since then, she has dedicated her life to protecting living donors and helping more people with end-stage kidney disease receive kidney transplants.
Helping pass the Living Donor Protection Act...
Statement from the National Kidney Foundation on Federal Living Donor Protection Act
April 6, 2022, New York, NY —In recognition of Donate Life Month, the National Kidney Foundation is urging Congress to act on The Living Donor Protection Act of 2021 (LDPA), ...
Living Donors Save Lives and Give Others a Second Chance at Life
May 13, 2021, New York, NY – While COVID-19 continues to dominate the United States healthcare system, nearly 100,000 Americans are still on a waitlist for a kidney transplant and each day 12 patients die waiting for a kidney. National Kidney Foundation (NKF) Health Policy...