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Our Kidney Blog is Australia's first Kidney Health Consumer feedback mechanism.  It enables people with kidney disease to share personal views and stories.  It provides key decision makers with feedback from those at the front line, dealing with this silent killer.  In a busy world  it's difficult to be heard - contibute your thoughts, help build a meaningful meeting place and voice for our kidney health community.  Our Kidney Blogosphere is reviewed by our Consumer Participation Committees.  You may also wish to make a difference in other ways.

Start blogging now - no registration required - your Kidney Blog is open to anyone from our kidney community to comment. Click on subject heading below you are interested in - enter your blog note in the box at the bottom of the page - tick agreement box to upload.  Any entry may be moderated if it does not fulfil the Terms of Reference or Rules of Conduct displayed on YAP Space .

Current Blogosphere Quick Links are: 
Bloggers from our 'kidney' community  I  Transport  I  Home dialysis  I  Organ Donation  I  Donor Compensation  I  Early Detection and Prevention  I 

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Your Kidney Blog - Have your say
Author: Administrator Account Created: Tuesday, 19 December 2006
This area is a place to lodge your thoughts (blog), experiences, opinions on issues that affect the broader kidney community. Have your say in your own blogosphere and speak up - the first step to real change!

Bloggers from our 'kidney' community
By Administrator Account on Monday, 17 March 2008
What's happening in your 'kidney' world. Do you have something to say - speak up here and be heard.
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Transport
By Administrator Account on Wednesday, 31 August 2005
Transport is a key concern for patients needing to travel to dialysis treatment - whether it be access to taxi subsidies, availability of bus services, reliance on family and friends, or cost of petrol for cars - getting to dialysis can be a real struggle. Skyrocketing petrol prices are having a devastating impact, particularly for those patients who live in regional and rural areas where access to dialysis units is limited.
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Home dialysis
By Administrator Account on Monday, 23 May 2005
Home Dialysis has many advantages and can significantly improve rehabilitation and length of survival. It currently costs Government an average of $60,000 a year for just one patient to dialyse. If this patient is supported and encouraged to move to home dialysis, this cost is cut by a third, down to $40,000. Give us your thoughts....
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Organ Donation
By Administrator Account on Sunday, 22 May 2005
Organ transplantation funding a major boost for Kidney patients - around 60% of all organ transplants carried out in Australia relate to the kidney. Kidney Health Australia today said the strategy and funding by Federal Government to improve organ donation would provide a major boost for Kidney Patients who are forced to wait an average of four to six years on dialysis for a transplant.
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Donor Compensation
By Administrator Account on Sunday, 22 May 2005

Organ donor compensation is important. It would cost around $575,000 to assist 250 donors to cover out of pocket costs - as it costs $60,000 per annum to keep one person alive on dialysis in Australia, the savings to the Federal health budget are obvious.   Kidney Health Australia continually renews its call to Government for compensation to organ donors.  Have your say ... .........

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Early Detection and Prevention
By Administrator Account on Sunday, 22 May 2005
Kidney disease is out of control in Australia - almost 2 million Australians may be affected by early-stage kidney disease and not even know about it.
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