Anne Wilson - CEO Kidney Health Australia

Latest research which shows Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) acts as a multiplier for heart, stroke and diabetes. This has seen the US Congress commit $100 billion (25%) of its Medicare budget to fight CKD with a national strategy, including a pilot program of CKD detection by targeted screening and community awareness programs, to limit the expansion of a runaway massive dialysis debt. At the end of 2007 a total of 9,642 people in Australia were receiving dialysis treatment with the health budget on dialysis blowing out at a million dollars a week.
Find out more at www.kidney.org.au/HealthProfessionals/AustralianCKDSummit/tabid/751/Default.aspx