WKD Admin's Blog (13)

Check out his speech and WKD celebrations in Kenya here

The French President has given his support to World Kidney Day and the series of events organised in France on the 10th and 11th of March. French health Minister Roselyne Bachelot will host a conference today in Paris. For more information, please visit: http://www.fondation-du-rein.org/

Many thanks to all of you for your efforts and happy celebrations!

First of all, thank you for this very large participation!

We are grateful for having received so many creative proposals!

The jury has decided that the winner of this contest is:

Eda Sofia Correa, a 23 year old student from México City

In second position comes:

Ayse Onat, from the Turkish Kidney Foundation…

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Check out the video message of support from golf legend Lorena Ochoa!

http://www.worldkidneyday.org/video/lorena-ochoa-supports-world

Brittish popstars fromt he UK show "Popstar to Opera star" united to reate a flyer of support for World Kidney Day: popstar flyer finished.pdf

The Hong Kong Society of Nephrology is hosting a Chinese version of the World Kidney Day website! This project was supported by an unrestricted educational grant from Roche.

Thank you both for this amazing initiative!

Check out the website here:…

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We are launching a big World Kidney Day contest!



We want to create a World Kidney Day iconic item, (like the pink ribbon for Breast Cancer or the poppy for Remembrance Day) that will be produced and available for sale around the world, to help national foundations and societies raise funds and awareness for World Kidney Day 2011.



Please contact junior schools, patients in your hospitals, design students, friends and colleagues to think about it and send us their… Continue

Check out this article on the relation between kidney diseases and diabetes: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/11/13/kidney.disease.diabetes/index.html

This article was published on the occasion of World Diabetes Day.

We have listened to your requests for campaign material available in different languages. In a couple of weeks, a poster will be available in Spanish, French, Russian and other languages!
More material to come as well.... keep an eye on the World Kidney Day website!

Outreach toolkits are now available under 'get involved'. This will be very helpful to guide you for your outreach to the media or celebrities.

If you want your centre to appear on this map, please email info@worldkidneyday.org

World Kidney Day and the European Kidney Health Alliance will continue their partnership this year, in order to raise awareness of kidney diseases among European policy makers. Continue