Zeitschrift für Nephrologie und Therapeutik

Kidney Disease in Poor and Disadvantaged Regions

Abstract

William Fred * and Emmy Warld

The difficulties and dilemmas that poor people with renal illness face are enormous. Patients, health care providers, and researchers are all struggling to cope with and understand the high burden of disease, the practical approach to delivering high-cost renal replacement therapy with limited resources, the implementation of preventive strategies, and the difficult ethical dilemmas. The goal of this special issue is to bring attention to the understudied problem of renal disease in underserved communities.