Advocacy

Largest American Kidney Group Marks Juneteenth With Call For Diversity In Clinical Trials And End To Care Disparity

The American Association of Kidney Patients (AAKP), the largest kidney patient organization in America, and the independent voice for kidney patients, issued a Juneteenth statement from AAKP President Richard Knight.

June 19, 2020

Protecting Access to Pain Relief (PAPR) Coalition, Request for Comment entitled “Management of Acute and Chronic Pain”

On behalf of the undersigned members of the Protecting Access to Pain Relief (PAPR) Coalition, please find written comments in response to the Request for Comment entitled “Management of Acute and Chronic Pain” (Docket No. CDC-2020-0029) issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

June 17, 2020

February 14, 2020 – Dental Access Letter to HHS Secretary Azar

We applaud your efforts to deliver on President Trump’s Advancing American Kidney Health Initiative. You have stated that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will reform regulations so that fewer Americans suffer kidney failure, more options are available for dialysis patients, and more organs are available for transplant.

February 18, 2020

We applaud your efforts to deliver on President Trump’s Advancing American Kidney Health Initiative. You have stated that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

September 24, 2019

By Dale Rogers, AAKP Ambassador It was thirty-nine years ago that I noticed politics for the first time. I got home from school on March 30, turned on the T.V. and was witness to the chaotic aftermath of the failed assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan.

AAKP 2019 National Patient Meeting – Meet The Planning Committee: Daronta Briggs

March 8, 2019

By Melinda Starling, AAKP Communications Intern Daronta Briggs (Hampton, VA) was diagnosed with kidney disease in early 2008 and began hemodialysis that summer. He continued treatment until 2012, when he received a kidney transplant on October 24th. His journey didn’t end there.

Labor Secretary Acosta Earns Patient Praise For Organ Donor Job Protections

February 11, 2019

For Immediate Release August 31, 2018–Washington, D.C.: The American Association of Kidney Patients (AAKP) today thanked U.S.

February 6, 2019

By Jim Myers, AAKP Board Member, Ambassador Posted: February 5, 2019 I have often been asked why I take such long walks. I was in my transplant doctor’s office a few months back. He gave me that look. You know the look. Like that look your Dad used too give you before the stern lecture was coming. The serious discussion lecture.

January 28, 2019

AAKP Ambassador, Bruce Tippets, a journalist in Utah, shares his excitement in being asked to share his kidney story at AAKP’s Capitol Hill Day in March for National Kidney Awareness Month. Read below. January 28, 2019 –When I checked my email on Jan.

ARTICLE: Appropriate Use of Opioids in Patients with Kidney Diseases

April 23, 2018

CJASN ARTICLE, published April 2018, Click here. By David M. White (AAKP Board Member and Ambassador) In this issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, Ishida et al. report on an investigation using data from the US Renal Data System to investigate the effects of opioids on patients on hemodialysis (1).

AAKP Joins National Kidney Foundation and Others On Capitol Hill

March 8, 2017

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sarah McConnell Marketing & Communications Manager (800) 749-AAKP (2257) smcconnell@aakp.org U.S. CONGRESS LISTENS TO OVER 140 KIDNEY PATIENTS AAKP Joins National Kidney Foundation and Others On Capitol Hill WASHINGTON, D.C.: The American Association of Kidney Patients, (AAKP)