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Kidney Blog

Use your Kidney Blog and be heard

Perhaps you have words of encouragement, information, experience or perspective to offer our Kidney Bloggers.  Australia's first Kidney Health Consumer feedback mechanism 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 often difficult to be heard - contibute your thoughts, help build a meaningful meeting place and voice for our kidney health community.  The Kidney Blog is reviewed by our Consumer Participation Committees.  Send us suggestions for new topics, your feedback is most welcome.

YAP Space

YAP Space  has been created as a pilot program for people who have first hand experience with kidney disease or the kidney community.  YAP Space hopes to provide you with a safe place where Australians and others globally with a connection to CKD, can meet, talk, and share information and support one another.  We hope this may alleviate some of the isolation felt when living with a chronic condition

  • YAP Forum  -  logon now to post - have your say, start a thread - moderated and reviewed regularly
  • YAP Chat  -  open for social chat for registered Yappers, 24 hours a day - spread the word

Be aware of the YAP Space Terms of Use and Code of Conduct.

Share your view

NOTE - Kidney Health Australia will review all material prior to posting - personal email or contact information can not be displayed.  We encourage free and creative expression, however, as in any environment where people are given this freedom, conflict may arise.  If an author uses language or materials that offend the material will not be displayed. Do not post any content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive to another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable. Treat other people's privacy as you would your own.  

Author: Administrator Account Created: Tuesday, 19 December 2006
This area is a place to lodge your thoughts, experiences, opinions on issues that affect the broader kidney community - Kidney health in general, Organ donation, Donor compensation, Transport, Home dialysis, Early detection and prevention. Have your say and speak up - first step to real change!

Local events, updates, interesting items
By Administrator Account on Monday, 17 March 2008
What is happening in your State - tell us what you are planning, any problems encountered along the way, local interest items, etc.
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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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